different between raim vs maim

English

Verb

raim (third-person singular simple present raims, present participle raiming, simple past and past participle raimed)

1. Alternative form of rame

Anagrams

• Amir, Irma, Mair, Mari, Mira, RIMA, amir, mair, rami, rima

Dalmatian

Etymology

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Noun

raim

1. oar

References

• Bartoli, Matteo Giulio (1906) Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, published 2000

Middle English

Noun

raim

1. Alternative form of raymen

Old French

Alternative forms

• rain, ram, reim, rein

Etymology

From Latin r?mus.

Noun

raim m (oblique plural rains, nominative singular rains, nominative plural raim)

1. branch (of a tree, etc.)

Related terms

• ramel

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (rain)
• raim on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

English

Etymology

From Middle English maymen, mahaymen, from Anglo-Norman maheimer, mahaigner, of Germanic origin; see mayhem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?m/
• Rhymes: -e?m

Verb

maim (third-person singular simple present maims, present participle maiming, simple past and past participle maimed)

1. To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.

   • Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local colour) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.

Synonyms

• mutilate

Derived terms

• maimer

Translations

Noun

maim (plural maims)

1. (obsolete) A serious wound

Anagrams

• I'mma, Imma, Mami, imam, imma, mami

Tocharian B

Etymology

From Proto-Tocharian *meim, a nominal derivative of *mei- (“to measure”). Possibly linked to Proto-Indo-European *mod-ye/o- or *m?dye/o-, derivatives of *med- (“to measure, give advice, heal”) (whence Latin meditor and Old Irish midithir), or alternatively to *meh?-ye/o- from *meh?- (“to measure”) (whence Latin m?tior). Compare Tocharian A mem.

Noun

maim ?

1. thought, thinking