ime

ime m (feminine imani)

1. meat

• “ime” in Gordon Koop, Lois Koop, Dicionário deni-português, Associação Internacional de Lingüística - SIL Brasil, 1985.

• IPA^(key): /ime/

ime

1. (anatomy) hand

• Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "ⁿDe’u" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

From Proto-Finnic *imeh. Cognate with Finnish ihme.

• IPA^(key): /ˈime/,
• Rhymes: -ime
• Hyphenation: i‧me

ime (genitive ime, partitive imet)

1. miracle (a supernatural, inexplicable or very surprising phenomenon)
2. (informal) emphatic word used to strengthen the content of various exclamations of surprise, displeasure, etc.

   See on küll imede ime, et ajaleht selle loo avaldas.

   It's a wonder of wonders that the newspaper published this story.

• “ime”, in Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
• “ime”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “ime”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
• ime in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

• IPA^(key): /ˈimeˣ/,
• Rhymes: -ime
• Syllabification^(key): i‧me

ime

1. inflection of imeä:
   1. present active indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

• emi, mie

ime

1. to be (somewhere)
2. there is or there are

From Proto-Samic *imē.

This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

iṃe

1. wife of one's elder brother

• ime in Marja-Liisa Olthuis, Taarna Valtonen, Miina Seurujärvi and Trond Trosterud (2015–2022) Nettidigisäänih Anarâškiela-suomakielâ-anarâškielâ sänikirje‎, Tromsø: UiT

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

• IPA^(key):

From Old Irish imbe n (“the act of fencing or hedging; fence, hedge; weir, dam”), verbal noun of im·fen.

ime f (genitive singular ime, nominative plural imeadha) (literary)

1. fence, hedge
2. dam, weir

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ime m

1. genitive singular of im

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ime”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “imbe”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

ime

1. feminine plural of imo

• emi, emi-, mei, mie

ime

1. Rōmaji transcription of いめ

Hinde (1904) records imme as an equivalent of English dew and haze in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ìmɛ̀ꜜ/

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a monosyllabic stem, together with mũri, ngo, and so on.

• (Kiambu)

• (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including cindano, huko, iburi, igego, igoti, ini (pl. mani), inooro, irigũ, irũa, iturubarĩ (pl. maturubarĩ), kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũgũrũki, mũmbirarũ, mũndũ, mũri, mũthuuri, mwaki (“fire”), mwario (“way of speaking”), mbogoro, nda, ndaka, ndigiri, ngo, njagathi, njogu, nyondo (“breast(s)”), and so on.^[2]

ime class 5

1. dew

(Proverbs)

• mũrũngũru wa njamba ũmaathaga na ime
• njĩra ya mũũri ĩgĩaga na ime mũthenya

• “ime” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 254. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, p. 19.

ime

1. vocative masculine singular of imus

ime

1. (Gufin) Alternative form of imi

• Rachel Gray, Margaret Potter, Thom Retsema, Mungkip: an endangered language, SIL Electronic Survey Reports 35 (2009), page 25

ime

1. (Tumung) water

• mi (Kawalang)

• Rachel Gray, Margaret Potter, Thom Retsema, Mungkip: an endangered language, SIL Electronic Survey Reports 35 (2009), page 25

ime

1. masculine nominative/accusative plural of ima (“this”)

ime

1. masculine nominative/accusative plural of ima (“this”)

• IPA^(key):

ime

1. third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of ima

• jime (Chakavian)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *jьmę, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *inˀmen, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.

• IPA^(key): /îme/
• Hyphenation: i‧me

ȉme n (Cyrillic spelling и̏ме)

1. name

   djevojka po imenu Pepeljuga

   a girl by the name Cinderella

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:ime.

• ȉmenskī
• ȉmenovati

• prèzime

From Proto-Slavic *jьmę, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.

• IPA^(key): /iméː/

imẹ̑ n

1. name

• imenováti

• “ime”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024

Borrowed from Tocharian B īme.

ime m

1. consciousness, awareness, thought, memory

From Proto-Finnic *imeh.

• (Jõgõperä) IPA^(key): /ˈime/,
• Rhymes: -ime
• Hyphenation: i‧me

ime

1. (Jõgõperä) miracle

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) Vadja keele sõnaraamat, 2nd edition, Tallinn

From Old Frisian , from Proto-West Germanic *imbī.

• IPA^(key): /ˈimə/

ime c (plural imen, diminutive ymke)

1. honeybee

• “ime”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

ime

1. water
   • 1967, Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard, The Zande Trickster, page 230:

     bebere uru ki ta da gbinza de ki ni mo ka ye ka tu ga ri ime
     at midday an old wman came to draw her water

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)