different between abnegate vs hamas

English

Etymology

First attested in 1657.

• Perhaps from Latin abneg? (“to refuse, reject”) from ab (“away from”) + neg? (“to deny”),
• Alternatively, perhaps a back-formation from abnegation.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?æb.n?.?e?t/, /?æb.ni.?e?t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?æb.n?.?e?t/

Verb

abnegate (third-person singular simple present abnegates, present participle abnegating, simple past and past participle abnegated)

1. (transitive) To deny (oneself something); to renounce or give up (a right, a power, a claim, a privilege, a convenience). [First attested in the early 17^th century.]
2. (transitive) To relinquish; to surrender; to abjure. [First attested in the mid 18^th century.]

Related terms

• abnegation
• abnegator
• abnegatory

Translations

References

Latin

Verb

abneg?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of abneg?

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ham??s?]

Noun

hamas m

1. h-prothesized form of amas

Latin

Noun

ham?s

1. accusative plural of hama

Tok Pisin

Etymology

English how much

Pronoun

hamas

1. how much, how many

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English hame.

Noun

hamas

1. the hames, horse collar

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , 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, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN