n (see O'Rahilly,
Ériu xiii 162
).
(a)
some kind of
sea-weed (?); the thick stalk of some kinds of brown seaweed (?) :
feam cacha trachta `
sea-wrack
'
Laws v 482.30
.
crim,
feam, fiad-ubull,
474.1
.
femm a fimbria .i. o luibniu maris.
unde dicitur femuir .i. femfēr,
Phil. Soc. Trans. 1859, 210
=
a fimbria .i. a luibniu .i. mairis ; unde fembur,
O'Mulc.
515
. Cf.
femm
`a long tail ; a sea rod
'
P. O'C.
cf. 2 fíam;
(b)
the
membrum virile (?) : feam (gl. mentula),
Ir. Gl. 97
.