Etymology

seafoam

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Today it means: A foam created by the agitation of seawater. Full definition →

Middle English see fom
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  1. Middle English · inherited fromsee fom
  2. English todayseafoam

From Middle English see fom, see fome, equivalent to sea + foam.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.