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The term 'famin' refers to severe hunger and malnutrition. Old Common originally had no word for this concept, as it was not needed in the context of the Hillbillies screenshow, and did not fit in with the concept of that show's society.

When Common began to be used outside the show, a word for the concept was needed, at first to describe events in far-off countries, and not too long after as a much more local calamity and risk, as more and more of every locality's food supply was more and more locally sourced, and changing weather patterns made that supply increasingly insecure and prone to failure. Combined with the impact of violence and conflict, practically every locality on Earth had some experience with starvation by the mid 21st century.

The term 'famin' was borrowed from the English word 'famine'. As a noun it means a time of startvation or starvation in general. As a verb, it is an intransitive pali verb meaning to starve. It can take a relatively common causative skurun form where an ergative agent is added that is deliberately starving the absolutive patient. The modifier form 'faminys' means 'starving', and the abstract form 'faminys' can be used to disambiguate when starvation as a general concept is meant.