different between teem vs teev

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English temen (“to bear, to support”), from Old English t?man (“to give birth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti?m/
• Rhymes: -i?m
• Homophone: team

Verb

teem (third-person singular simple present teems, present participle teeming, simple past and past participle teemed)

1. To be stocked to overflowing.
2. To be prolific; to abound; to be rife.
3. (obsolete) To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English temen (“to drain”), from Old Norse tœma, from Proto-Germanic *t?mijan? (“to empty, make empty”). Related to English toom (“empty, vacant”). More at toom.

Verb

teem (third-person singular simple present teems, present participle teeming, simple past and past participle teemed)

1. (archaic) To empty.
   • 1849, G. C. Greenwell, A Glossary of Terms used in the Coal Trade of Northumberland and Durham

     [The banksman] also puts the full tubs to the weighing machine, and thence to the skreens, upon which he teems the coals. It is also his duty to keep an account of the quantity of coals and stones drawn each day.
2. To pour (especially with rain)
3. To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mould, with molten metal.

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English temen (“to be suitable, befit”), from Old English *teman, from Proto-Germanic *teman? (“to fit”). Cognate with Low German temen, tamen (“to befit”), Dutch betamen (“to befit”), German ziemen. See also tame (adjective) and compare beteem.

Verb

teem (third-person singular simple present teems, present participle teeming, simple past and past participle teemed)

1. (obsolete, rare) To think fit.
   • 1603, George Gifford, Dialogue of Witches

     Ah, said he, thou hast confessed and bewrayed all, I could teem it to rend thee in pieces

Anagrams

• Teme, etem, meet, mete, teme

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

teem

1. first-person singular present indicative of temen
2. imperative of temen

Farefare

Etymology

Cognate with Moore toeeme (“to change”)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /té?m/

Verb

teem

1. to move something

   S??? ka teem b??s? la

   Go move the goats

Middle English

Noun

teem

1. Alternative form of teme (“folk”)

White Hmong

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t???/

Noun

teev

1. scale/scales (balance, device for measuring)

References

• Ernest E. Heimbach, White Hmong - English Dictionary (1979, SEAP Publications)