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Etymology
'ch- + am. Cognate with English cham.
Pronunciation
Contraction
'cham
- I am
1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 104:'Cham afear'd ich mosth cress a Shanaan,- I am afraid I must cross the Shannon,
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 30