different between zam vs eam

English

Interjection

zam

1. shortened form of kazaam
   • 1945, The Author and Journalist (volumes 30-31, page 9)

     Then suddenly — Zam! Zowie! Smash! The Post sends back an article which I was positive it would buy, and which, in fact, it had ordered. One manuscript after another is flung back into my face […]

   • 2007, J. W. Brodie-Innes, The Devil's Mistress (page 21)

     You never know when some enemy of the Free World might worm his or her way into your confidence and then — ZAM! Wipe you out.

Alemannic German

Etymology

From Old High German zam, from Proto-Germanic *tamaz (“tame”). Cognate with German zahm, Dutch tam, English tame, Icelandic tamur.

Adjective

zam (Uri)

1. tame, gentle
2. (of weather) mild

References

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 68.

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German zam, from Proto-Germanic *tamaz. The vowel may be influenced by cognate German zahm. Luxembourgish zam(m) is the expected outcome of the uninflected stem, but one might expect *zuem, *zumm from the inflected forms instead. Also cognate with Dutch tam, English tame.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tsa?m/
  • Rhymes: -a?m
  • Homophone: Zam

Adjective

zam (masculine zamen, neuter zaamt, comparative méi zam, superlative am zaamsten)

1. tame

Declension

Antonyms

• wëll

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *tamaz, whence also Old English tam, Old Norse tamr

Adjective

zam

1. tame

Descendants

• Middle High German: zam
  • Alemannic German: zam
  • German: zahm
  • Hunsrik: zaam
  • Luxembourgish: zam

Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic ????? (?amm).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??m]

Noun

zam (definite accusative zamm?, plural zamlar)

1. surcharge
2. increase in price

3. salary raise

Declension

Antonyms

• indirim

References

• Ni?anyan, Sevan (2002–) , “zam”, in Ni?anyan Sözlük

English

Alternative forms

• eame
• eme (Scottish)

Etymology

From Middle English eem, eme, from Old English ?am (“maternal uncle”), from Proto-Germanic *awahaimaz (“maternal uncle”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?éwh?os (“maternal uncle, maternal grandfather”). Cognate with Scots eme (“uncle”), West Frisian iem, omke (“uncle”), Dutch oom (“uncle”), German Ohm, Oheim (“maternal uncle”), Latin avunculus (“maternal uncle”). See uncle. Doublet of oom.

Noun

eam (plural eams)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) Uncle.
   • 2011, Ernest R. Holloway, Andrew Melville and Humanism in Renaissance Scotland 1545-1622:

     James Melville remarked that during his uncle's time in Geneva he became “weill acquented with my eam, Mr. hendrie Scrymgeour” and was said to have been “a frequent visitor at his lodgings in town, and also at the Violet.

Related terms

• neam

Anagrams

• AME, AmE, EMA, Mae, ema

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?e.am/, [?eä??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?e.am/, [????m]

Pronoun

eam

1. accusative feminine singular of is: "her", "it" (referring to feminine nouns), or demonstratively (as a demonstrative pronoun) "this", "that" (likewise referring to feminine nouns).

Verb

eam

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of e?

Old English

Etymology 1

Contracted from earlier *?ah?m, from Proto-West Germanic *auhaim (“maternal uncle”).

See also Gothic ???????????? (aw?, “grandmother”); Latin avus (“grandfather”), avunculus (“uncle”), dialectal Russian ?? (uj, “maternal uncle”), Ukrainian ??? (vuj, “uncle”), all from Proto-Indo-European *awos, *h?éwh?os (“maternal uncle, maternal grandfather”). The word is cognate with Old Frisian ?m, Middle Dutch oom (Dutch oom), Old High German oheim (German Oheim, Ohm).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æ???m/

Noun

?am m (nominative plural ?amas)

1. uncle (especially maternal)

Declension

Related terms

• fædera

Descendants

• Middle English: eme, eem
  • English: eam
  • Scots: eme, eyme, eym

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *immi (“I am”), a form of *wesan?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ésmi (“am”). More at am.

Alternative forms

• eom, æm

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æ??m/

Verb

eam

1. Alternative form of eom

Teop

Pronoun

eam

1. you (second-person pronoun, nominative case, plural)

Further reading

• http://corpus1.mpi.nl/media-archive/dobes_data/Teop/Teop_Language_Corpus/Literature/Legends/Legends_open_/Annotations/Iar_2_G.pdf
• https://web.archive.org/web/20170516185153/http://www.ioling.org/booklets/iol-2012-indiv-sol.en.pdf