different between eam vs eame

English

Alternative forms

• eame
• eme (Scottish)

Etymology

From Middle English eem, eme, from Old English ?am (“maternal uncle”), from Proto-Germanic *awahaimaz (“maternal uncle”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?éwh?os (“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.

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.

Related terms

• neam

Anagrams

• AME, AmE, EMA, Mae, ema

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?e.am/, [?eä??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?e.am/, [????m]

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 e?

Old English

Etymology 1

Contracted from earlier *?ah?m, from Proto-West Germanic *auhaim (“maternal uncle”).

See also Gothic ???????????? (aw?, “grandmother”); Latin avus (“grandfather”), avunculus (“uncle”), dialectal Russian ?? (uj, “maternal uncle”), Ukrainian ??? (vuj, “uncle”), all from Proto-Indo-European *awos, *h?éwh?os (“maternal uncle, maternal grandfather”). The word is cognate with Old Frisian ?m, Middle Dutch oom (Dutch oom), Old High German oheim (German Oheim, Ohm).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æ???m/

Noun

?am m (nominative plural ?amas)

1. uncle (especially maternal)

Declension

Related terms

• fædera

Descendants

• Middle English: eme, eem
  • English: eam
  • Scots: eme, eyme, eym

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *immi (“I am”), a form of *wesan?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ésmi (“am”). More at am.

Alternative forms

• eom, æm

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æ??m/

Verb

eam

1. Alternative form of eom

Teop

Pronoun

eam

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

Further reading

• http://corpus1.mpi.nl/media-archive/dobes_data/Teop/Teop_Language_Corpus/Literature/Legends/Legends_open_/Annotations/Iar_2_G.pdf
• https://web.archive.org/web/20170516185153/http://www.ioling.org/booklets/iol-2012-indiv-sol.en.pdf

English

Noun

eame (plural eames)

1. Obsolete form of eme. (an uncle).
   • 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book IV, xlix:

     Three times the shape of my dear mother came, / Pale, sad, dismay'd, to warn me in my dream: // Alas! how far transformed from the same, / Whose eyes shone erst like Titan's glorious beam.— // Daughter, she says, fly, fly, behold thy dame, / Foreshows the treasons of thy wretched eame.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)

Anagrams

• Amee, EMEA, Emae