ame

• (various orthographies:) ʔâm / ámeh / ameː / hămē / ame̱

Ultimately from Proto-Chadic *ymn.

ame

1. water

• Takács, Gábor (2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 201, →ISBN:

  […] we should carefully distinguish the following Ch. roots from AA *m-ˀ "water" [GT]:

  (1) Ch. *h-m "water" [GT]: […] Afd. ámeh [ame(ː)] [Stz.] = hămē [Barth] = ame̱ [Lbf.], […]

ame

1. plural of aam

Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin amia (“sea fish”), derived from Ancient Greek ἀμία (amía).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈamɛ/

ame f (plural ame, definite ame, definite plural amet)

1. brown meagre (Sciaena umbra)

   Synonym: lojbë

ame

1. axe, hatchet

ame (inanimate)

1. pemmican

From ami +‎ -e.

• IPA^(key): [ˈame]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ame
• Hyphenation: a‧me

ame

1. with love, in love, lovingly
   • Edmond Privat, Vivo de Zamenhof, Ĉapitro 11,

     Ame ĉirkaŭata, li sidadis en la mezo de la kongresanoj kun edzino.

     Surrounded with love, he would sit with his wife in the midst of those attending the congress.

   • Stellan Engholm, Infanoj en Torento, Dua Parto, Ĉapitro III,

     li subite metis sian brakon ĉirkaŭ ŝian kolon kaj ame rigardis en ŝiajn okulojn.

     he suddenly put his arm around her neck and looked lovingly into her eyes.

ame (plural amewo)

1. man (human)

ame

1. inflection of amar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

ame

1. Rōmaji transcription of あめ

ame

1. we

• “ame” in Finnish Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.

From Proto-North Iroquoian *ˈaːwẽɁ, ultimately from Proto-Iroquoian *awẽɁ.

ame

1. water

• Charles Julian (2010) A history of the Iroquoian Languages‎^[1], University of Manitoba, page 461

• ayme, awme

Borrowed from Old French aesme, esme.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːm(ə)/

ame (plural ames)

1. evaluation, guess, opinion; plan, intention
2. aim, purpose

• English: aim
• Yola: aim

• “āme, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Inherited from Old French ame, from Latin anima.

ame f (plural ames)

1. soul; spirit

• French: âme

Ultimately from Proto-Chadic *ymn.

ame pl

1. water

• S. Allison, Makary Kotoko Provisional Lexicon (SIL)

Cognates include Minica Huitoto ame and Nüpode Huitoto ame.

• IPA^(key): [ˈamɛ]
• Hyphenation: a‧me

ame

1. wood

• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎^[2], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 271

• anima (9th and 10th centuries)
• anme (11th century)
• alme (12th century)

From Latin anima.

ame oblique singular, f (oblique plural ames, nominative singular ame, nominative plural ames)

1. soul; spirit

• Middle French: ame
  • French: âme
• Walloon: åme

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (ame, supplement)
• ame on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɐmɨ, (Brazil) -ɐ̃mi
• Hyphenation: a‧me

ame

1. inflection of amar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

ame

1. year

• Harrison, Roy, B. de Harrison, Margaret, López Juárez, Francisco, Ordoñes, Cosme (1984) Vocabulario zoque de Rayón (Serie de diccionarios y vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 28)‎^[3] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 3

ame

1. Alternative form of amen (“we”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈame/ [ˈa.me]

• Audio (Venezuela):

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• Rhymes: -ame
• Syllabification: a‧me

ame

1. inflection of amar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

From Proto-Tani *a-mə, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mej. Cognates include Burmese မီး (mi:) and Tibetan མེ (me).

• IPA^(key): /ˈa˧˥me˥˩/

ámè

1. fire

• IPA^(key): /ˈa˥˩me˧˥/

àmé

1. small

• Mark W. Post (2017) The Tangam Language: Grammar, Lexicon and Texts, →ISBN

ame

1. first-person plural present indicative of avere

ame

1. I (first-person singular pronoun)

From Proto-Edoid *a-mɪ̃, see Edo amẹ, Yekhee amɛ, and other Edoid languages

ame

1. water

• The History of Ogori (1970), in notes

Proposed to be derived from Proto-Edoid *a-mɪ̃, compare with Edo amẹ and distantly related to Yoruba omi, Igbo mmiri.

• IPA^(key): /à.mẽ̀/

ame

1. water

• N. Rolle, Nasal vowel patterns in West Africa, citing own field notes and Ukere 2005 [1986]

Variant orthographies

ALIV	ame
Brazilian standard	ame
New Tribes	ame

• IPA^(key): [ame]

ame

1. (transitive) to lick
2. (transitive) to suck
3. (transitive) to eat (something sweet)

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ame”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[4], Lyon
• Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “ameedö”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[5], Museu do Índio/FUNAI

ame

1. water

• Eric Johnson, Calvain Mbernodji, Enquête sociolinguistique de la langue Moubi du Tchad, SIL Electronic Survey Reports (2006), page 24