different between eam vs leam

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

Alternative forms

• leem, leme

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li?m/
• Rhymes: -i?m

Etymology 1

From Middle English lemen, from Old English l?man, from Proto-West Germanic *liuhmijan, from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“light, bright”).

Verb

leam (third-person singular simple present leams, present participle leaming, simple past and past participle leamed)

1. (intransitive, Britain, dialectal) To gleam; shine; glow.

Derived terms

• leamer

Etymology 2

From Middle English leme, from Old English l?oma (“ray of light, beam, radiance, gleam, glare, lightning”), from Proto-Germanic *leuhmô (“light, shine”), from Proto-Indo-European *leuk- (“light, bright”). Cognate with Icelandic ljómi (“gleam, ray, beam, flash of light”), Latin lumen (“light”).

Noun

leam (plural leams)

1. (Britain, dialectal) A gleam or flash of light; a glow or glowing.

See also

• gleam

Etymology 3

See leamer, lien.

Noun

leam (plural leams)

1. A cord or strap for leading a dog.
   • 1808, Walter Scott, Conclusion to Queenhoo Hall (written by Joseph Strutt)

     a large blood-hound tied in a leam

Anagrams

• -meal, Elam, Elma, Lema, Malé, alme, amel, lame, lamé, lema, male, meal, mela, mela-

Latin

Noun

leam

1. accusative singular of lea

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

• le + mi

Pronoun

leam

1. with me, by me

Derived terms

• leam-leat
• leamsa

See also

• prepositional pronoun