eam

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See also: -eam, ΕΑΜ, and ꜫam

English

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Etymology

From Middle English eem, eme, from Old English ēam (maternal uncle), from Proto-Germanic *awahaimaz (maternal uncle), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwh₂os (maternal uncle, maternal grandfather). Cognate with Scots eme (uncle), West Frisian iem, omke (uncle), Dutch oom (uncle), German Ohm, Oheim (maternal uncle), Latin avunculus (maternal uncle). See uncle. Doublet of oom.

Pronunciation

Noun

eam (plural eams)

  1. (dialectal or obsolete) Uncle.
    • 2011, Ernest R. Holloway, Andrew Melville and Humanism in Renaissance Scotland 1545-1622:
      James Melville remarked that during his uncle's time in Geneva he became “weill acquented with my eam, Mr. hendrie Scrymgeour” and was said to have been “a frequent visitor at his lodgings in town, and also at the Violet.

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Latin

Pronunciation

Pronoun

eam

  1. accusative feminine singular of is: "her", "it" (referring to feminine nouns), or demonstratively (as a demonstrative pronoun) "this", "that" (likewise referring to feminine nouns).

Verb

eam

  1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of

Middle English

Noun

eam

  1. Alternative form of em

Old English

Etymology 1

Contracted from earlier *ēahām, from Proto-West Germanic *auhaim (maternal uncle).

See also Gothic 𐌰𐍅𐍉 (awō, grandmother); Latin avus (grandfather), avunculus (uncle), dialectal Russian уй (uj, maternal uncle), Ukrainian вуй (vuj, uncle), all from Proto-Indo-European *awos, *h₂éwh₂os (maternal uncle, maternal grandfather). The word is cognate with Old Frisian ēm, Middle Dutch oom (Dutch oom), Old High German oheim (German Oheim, Ohm).

Pronunciation

Noun

ēam m (nominative plural ēamas)

  1. uncle (especially maternal)
Declension
Descendants

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *immi (I am), a form of *wesaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésmi (am). More at am.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Verb

eam

  1. Mercian and Early West Saxon form of eom

Teop

Pronoun

eam

  1. you (second-person pronoun, nominative case, plural)

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