different between sem vs mem

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?m/

Noun

sem (plural sems)

1. Clipping of seminary.
2. Clipping of semester.
3. Clipping of semicolon.

Anagrams

• EMS, EMs, Ems, MES, MEs, MSE, SME, ems, mes, mes-

Bahnar

Etymology

From Proto-Bahnaric *ce??m, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *cim ~ *ciim ~ *ci?m ~ *caim ~ *cum (“bird”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??m/

Noun

sem 

1. bird

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?m/

Pronunciation

Adverb

sem

1. hither (to here)

Eskayan

Numeral

sem

1. nine

Hungarian

Alternative forms

• se

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [???m]
• Rhymes: -?m

Conjunction

sem (clitic)

1. …, neither (or not…, either)

2. not even

Conjunction

sem (paired)

1. neither… nor…

Usage notes

The word sem and nincs, nincsen (“it/there isn't”) are contracted into the forms sincs, sincsen (“it/there isn't, either”).

Derived terms

• semleges

See also

• koránt (used in the phrases korántsem, koránt sincs)

Further reading

• sem in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse sem (“as, like”), possibly from Proto-Germanic *samaz (“same, alike”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??m/
• Rhymes: -??m
• (before words beginning with a consonant) IPA^(key): /s?m/

Conjunction

sem

1. (with a noun phrase) as, like

2. (with a clause) like, as if

3. (relative, with a clause) who, which, that

Synonyms

• (as, like, as if): eins og
• (which, that): er

Derived terms

Verb

sem (weak)

1. first-person singular present indicative of semja
2. second-person singular imperative of semja

Old Norse

Etymology 1

Possibly from Proto-Germanic *samaz (“same, alike”).

Alternative forms

• som, sum (late Old Norse)

Conjunction

sem

1. as, the same, like

Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

sem

1. inflection of semja:
   1. first-person singular active present indicative
   2. second-person singular active imperative

References

• sem in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?m/

Verb

sem

1. to exit; to leave; to get out

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese sen, from Latin sine, from Proto-Indo-European *sene.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sem
• Homophone: cem

Preposition

sem

2. -less; without (not having, containing, characteristic of, etc.)

4. (followed by infinitive) without (not doing or not having done something)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:sem.

Synonyms

• (not having): desprovido de, falto de

Antonyms

• (not having, containing, characteristic of, etc.): com
• (not doing or having done something): use gerund (-ando, -endo, -indo)

Derived terms

• sem mais nem menos
• sem que

Romani

Verb

sem

1. first-person singular present indicative of si

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??m/

Adverb

sem

1. hither, over here (to here)

Verb

s??m

1. first-person singular present of bíti

Further reading

• “sem”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English same

Adjective

sem

1. same

Westrobothnian

Etymology 1

From Old Norse sem (“as, like”), possibly from Proto-Germanic *samaz (“same, alike”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?m/

  Rhymes: -e?m

Conjunction

sem

1. (with a noun phrase) as, like

2. (with a clause) like, as if
3. (relative, with a clause) who, which, that

Alternative forms

• s?m
• söm
• som
• so

Etymology 2

From sema (“to swim”).

Pronunciation

• (Hössjö, Bygdeå) IPA^(key): /se?m/
• (Burträsk) IPA^(key): /sem?/

  Rhymes: -em

Adjective

sem

1. able to swim

Alternative forms

• sam

Noun

sem m (definite singular semen)

1. way of swimming

Alternative forms

• svem

Derived terms

• tåsksem

Verb

sem

1. singular present indicative of sema
2. singular present imperative of sema

Zou

Noun

sem

1. hair

References

• http://www.languageinindia.com/feb2013/zouphonologyfinal.pdf

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Etymology 1

From Phoenician ????????? (mm /mem/, “water”), from Proto-Semitic *ma?- (“*ma?-/*may-”).

Alternative forms

• meem, mim

Noun

mem (plural mems)

1. The thirteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

Translations

Etymology 2

Shortening.

Noun

mem (plural mems)

1. (computing) A memory access as part of processing.

Further reading

• mem on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• EMM, Emm

Catalan

Etymology

English meme

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?m?m/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?m?m/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?mem/

Noun

mem m (plural mems)

1. meme (unit of cultural information)
2. internet meme

Further reading

• mem on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ca
• mem d'Internet on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ca

Czech

Noun

mem m

1. meme

Related terms

• memetika f

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mem/
• Hyphenation: mem
• Audio:

Particle

mem

1. -self, -selves
   • 1998, Henrik Ibsen, trans. Odd Tangerud Puphejmo : Dramo en tri aktoj, [1]

     KROGSTAD. Vere ne? ?ajnas al mi, ke vi mem ?us diris —

     KROGSTAD. Truly not? It seems to me, that you yourself just said —

Derived terms

• memportreto

Pronoun

mem

1. itself

Finnish

Noun

mem

1. mem (thirteenth letter of the Hebrew and Phoenician scripts and the Northwest Semitic abjad)

Declension

Anagrams

• -mme

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from French même, from Old French mesme, from Vulgar Latin *metipsimus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mem/

Adverb

mem

1. even, still (in comparson)

2. (emphasis) really, indeed

See also

• ya (“indeed”)

Italian

Etymology

From Hebrew ??? (m?m), from Phoenician ????????? (mm, “water”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mem/
• Hyphenation: mém

Noun

mem m or f (invariable)

1. mem, specifically:
   1. The name of the Phoenician-script letter ????
   2. The name of the Hebrew-script letter ?/?

Mauritian Creole

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mem/

Etymology

From French même.

Adjective

mem

1. same

Adverb

mem

1. even

Derived terms

• mem si

Polish

Etymology

From English meme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?m/

Noun

mem m inan

1. meme (unit of cultural information)
2. meme (something copied and circulated online)

Declension

Further reading

• mem in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• mem in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Etymology

From English meme coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976), similar to gene. The book was translated to Swedish by Roland Adlerbeth, Den själviska genen (1983). The Swedish word mem follows the grammar of gen (“gene”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?m/

Noun

mem c

1. a meme (unit of cultural information)

Declension

Related terms

• memetik

Tocharian A

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), or alternatively to *meh?-ye/o- from *meh?- (“to measure”) (whence Latin m?tior). Compare Tocharian B maim.

Noun

mem

1. thought, thinking

Volapük

Noun

mem (nominative plural mems)

1. memory

Declension

West Frisian

Etymology

Probably from Old Frisian *m?me, from Proto-West Germanic *m?m?. Compare English mum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?m/

Noun

mem c (plural memmen, diminutive memke)

1. mother, mom

   Coordinate term: heit

Further reading

• “mem”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011