different between xem vs sem

English

Pronoun

xem

1. (nonstandard) Object-case of xe.
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     Still, most parents have some intuitive understanding that "our child is not like us, maybe someone like xem could help...."

Anagrams

• MEX, Mex, Mex., mex

Mapudungun

Adjective

xem (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. adult

References

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Arabic ???.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /x?m/

Noun

xem f (Arabic spelling ????)

1. grief, sorrow, distress, worry, concern

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) , “xem”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press

Timote

Numeral

xem

1. two

Alternative forms

• xen

Further reading

• Willem F. H. Adelaar, The Languages of the Andes (2004), page 128 (notes that this form, and xen, is used in both Timote and Cuica)

Vietnamese

Etymology

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese ? (“to practise divination”, SV: chiêm).

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [s?m??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [s?m??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [s?m??]

Verb

xem • (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ????)

1. to see; to look at; to watch; to read
2. to examine; to consider; to evaluate; to read (palm, future, etc.)

Derived terms

See also

• coi
• th?y

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