different between came vs wame

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ke?m/, [k?e??m]
• Rhymes: -e?m

Etymology 1

Verb

came

1. simple past tense of come
2. (colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of come
3. simple past tense of cum

Preposition

came

1. Used to indicate that the following event, period, or change in state occurred in the past, after a time of waiting, enduring, or anticipation

Synonyms

• (following event etc, in the past after waiting): by, when [event, period, change in state] came/arrived

See also

• come (preposition)

Etymology 2

Compare Scots came (“comb”), caim (“comb”), and Middle English camet (“silver”).

Noun

came (plural cames)

1. A grooved strip of lead used to hold panes of glass together.

Translations

References

• came at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• ACME, Acme, ECMA, EMAC, Mace, Ma?e, acme, eMac, mace

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kam/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Dutch kam (“cog of a wheel; originally, comb”).

Noun

came f (plural cames)

1. cam (part of engine)

Derived terms

• arbre à cames

Etymology 2

Inflected form of camer.

Verb

came

1. first-person singular present indicative of camer
2. third-person singular present indicative of camer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of camer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of camer
5. second-person singular imperative of camer

Latin

Noun

c?me

1. vocative singular of c?mus

Northern Kurdish

Noun

came ?

1. dress, clothing, garment

Derived terms

• camedank

English

Etymology

Northern form of womb, from Old English wamb.

Noun

wame (plural wames)

1. (Scotland, Northern England) The belly.
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 26:

     everybody knows what they are, the Gourdon fishers, they'd wring silver out of a corpse's wame and call stinking haddocks perfume fishes and sell them at a shilling a pair.

2. (Scotland, Northern England) The womb.

Anagrams

• meaw

Middle English

Noun

wame

1. Alternative form of wombe

Scots

Alternative forms

• wam

Etymology

From Middle English wambe, wame, wamb, forms of womb (“belly, womb”), from Old English wamb (“belly”).

Noun

wame (plural wames)

1. belly
2. womb
3. (figuratively) heart, mind
   • 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy (in English and Scots):

     "why, Andrew, you know all the secrets of this family.". "If I ken them, I can keep them," said Andrew; "they winna work in my wame like harm in a barrel, I'se warrant ye."