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Limburgish
Etymology
Compared with Low German ram(m) (“tart, flavourful, strong”) and Middle Low German ramer (“strong, spicy, bitter”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
Adverb
ramm (German-based spelling, Eupen spelling)
- completely, totally, utterly
Mienge GSM ess ramm kapott.- My mobile phone is completely destroyed.
- very
Dää Waan ess ramm schnell!- That car is very fast!
References
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *rammaz.
Pronunciation
Noun
ramm m
- ram (animal)
- c. 994, Ælfric, On the Year
Ælce mōnað hēo yrnð under ān þǣra tacna. Ān þǣra tacna ys ġehāten aries, þæt is ramm; oðer taurus, þæt is fearr; ðridda gemini, þæt synd ġetwisan; fēorða cancer, þæt is crabba; fīfta leo; syxta virgo, þæt is mǣden; seofoða libra, þæt is pund orde wǣġe; eahtoðe scorpius, þæt is þrōwend; nigoða is sagittarius, þæt is sċytta; teoða ys capricornus, þæt is buccan horn, oððe bucca; endlyfta is aquarius, þæt is wæter-ġyte, oððe þe þe wæter ġyt; twelfte is pisces, þæt synd fixas.- Each month runs under one of the signs . The first of the signs is called aries, that is "ram"; the second is taurus, that is "bull"; the third is gemini, that is "twins"; the fourth is cancer, that is "crab"; the fifth is lion; the sixth is virgo, that is "virgin"; the seventh is libra, that is "pound" or "scale"; eighth is scorpious, that is "scorpion"; ninth is sagittarius, that is "shooter"; tenth is capricornus, that is "he-goat's horn" or "he-goat"; eleventh is aquarius, that is "pouring water" or "one that pours water"; twelfth is pisces, that is "fishes."
- battering ram
- c. 995, Ælfric, Excerptiones De Arte Grammatica Anglice
Sume synd omonima, id sunt vnivoca, ða ġetācniað mā þinga mid ānre clypunge: ariēs byð ram betwux sċēapum and ram tō wealġeweorce, and ariēs ys ān ðāra twelf tācna.- Some words signify multiple things with one name: aries is a ram among sheep and a ram for taking down walls, and Aries is a sign of the Zodiac.
Declension
Strong a-stem:
Descendants