different between sem vs wem

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): /w?m/

Etymology

From Middle English wem, wemme, from Old English wamm (“stain, spot, scar, disgrace, defect, defilement, sin, evil, crime, injury, loss, hurt, misfortune”), from Proto-Germanic *wammaz (“stain, spot”), from Proto-Indo-European *wemh?- (“to spew, vomit”). Cognate with Icelandic vamm (“loss, damage”), Latin vom? (“vomit”, verb) (English vomit), Ancient Greek ???? (emé?, “I spew”) (English emesis), Lithuanian vemti (“to vomit”), Sanskrit ???? (vamati, “to vomit”)

Alternative forms

• weam, weem
• wame, wan (Scotland)

Noun

wem (plural wems)

1. (Britain dialectal) A spot, stain, or mark; (by extension) a (moral) blemish or fault.
   • 1822, sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]), Historical romances of the author of Waverley, page 513:

     "It is even so," he added, as he gazed on the Sub-Prior with astonishment; "neither wem nor wound — not so much as a rent in his frock!"

Derived terms

• wemless
• wemmy

Anagrams

• MWE, Mew, mew

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ve?m/

Pronoun

wem

1. (interrogative) dative of wer, (to) whom (indirect object).

Further reading

• “wem” in Duden online