sem
Translingual
[edit]Symbol
[edit]sem
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /sɛm/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛm
Noun
[edit]sem (plural sems)
Derived terms
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Bahnar
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Bahnaric *ceː₂m, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *cim ~ *ciim ~ *ciəm ~ *caim ~ *cum (“bird”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sem
Catalan
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Verb
[edit]sem
- (Northern, Alghero) first-person plural present indicative of ésser
- (Northern, Alghero) first-person plural present indicative of ser
Chinese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From clipping of English semester.
Pronunciation
[edit]- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
- Jyutping: sem6
- Cantonese Pinyin: sem6
- Guangdong Romanization: sém6
- Sinological IPA (key): /sɛːm²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
Noun
[edit]sem
- (Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) semester (Classifier: 個/个 c)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]Czech
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Czech sěmo, from Proto-Slavic *sěmo.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]sem
Eskayan
[edit]Numeral
[edit]sem
Hungarian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Conjunction
[edit]sem (clitic)
- …, neither (or not…, either)
- Julit sem láttam. ― I didn’t see Juli, either. [aside from not having seen another person]
- Én sem láttam Julit. ― I didn’t see Juli, either. [aside from other people who haven't seen her]
- not even
- Meg sem próbálta. ― S/he didn’t even try it.
Conjunction
[edit]sem (paired)
Usage notes
[edit]The word sem and nincs, nincsen (“it/there isn't”) are contracted into the forms sincs, sincsen (“it/there isn't, either”).
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- sem in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Icelandic
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Norse sem (“as, like”), possibly from Proto-Germanic *samaz (“same, alike”).
Conjunction
[edit]sem
- (with a noun phrase) as, like
- Hann var sem guð meðal manna.
- He was like a god amongst men.
- Hár hennar var hvítt sem snjór.
- Her hair was white as snow.
- Hann er sem nýr.
- He is as [good as] new.
- Vista sem…
- Save as…
- (with a clause) like, as if
- Svo virðist sem sjúkdómurinn sé arfgengur
- Is seems as though the disease is hereditary.
- (relative, with a clause) who, which, that
- Þetta er maðurinn sem ég hitti í gær.
- That’s the man that I met yesterday.
- Þetta er konan sem barði mig.
- That’s the woman who hit me.
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]sem (weak)
Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]sem
- Alternative form of seem (“seam”)
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]sem
- Alternative form of seem (“load”)
Old Norse
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Possibly from Proto-Germanic *samaz (“same, alike”).
Alternative forms
[edit]Conjunction
[edit]sem
Descendants
[edit]- Icelandic: sem
- Faroese: sum (from East Nordic)
- Norwegian Nynorsk: (dialectal) sem, se
- Old Swedish: sum, som
- Danish: som
- Norwegian Bokmål: som
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]sem
- inflection of semja:
References
[edit]- “sem”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Old Tupi
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *t͡sẽp, from Proto-Tupian *tẽp.[1]
Cognate with Guaraní sẽ, Sateré-Mawé wẽẽ-tẽp.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]sem (first-person singular active indicative asem, first-person singular negative active indicative n'asemi, noun sema) (intransitive)
- to exit; to leave; to get out
- Asem 'y suí.
- I got out of the water.
- to move (to change residence)
- Synonym: îakasó
- (of a celestial body) to rise
- (rare) to be born [with suí ‘from someone’]
- Synonym: 'ar
- 1586, André Thevet, “Du Goulphre ou Riviere de Ganabara”, in Le grand Insulaire et pilotage d'André THEVET, Angoumoisin, cosmographe du Roy, dans lequel sont contenus plusieurs plants d'isles habitées et deshabitées et description d'icelles[1], page 253:
- A'e osem Maria Virgem suí.
- [original: aëoſen Maria Vurgon ſuy]
- He was born from Mary Virgin.
- 1586, André Thevet, “Du Goulphre ou Riviere de Ganabara”, in Le grand Insulaire et pilotage d'André THEVET, Angoumoisin, cosmographe du Roy, dans lequel sont contenus plusieurs plants d'isles habitées et deshabitées et description d'icelles[2], page 253:
- A'e abé nde suí osẽba'epûera Jesus.
- [original: aë aué de ſuy oſenuaë puera Jeſus]
- He also who was born from you, Jesus.
Conjugation
[edit]Causative | mosem | |||||
Causative-comitative | erosem | |||||
Deverbals | ||||||
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-ba'e | osemyba'e | |||||
-sab(a) | sembaba | |||||
-sar(a) | sembara | |||||
Singular | Singular & Plural | Plural | ||||
1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person exclusive | 1st person inclusive | 2nd person | |
Verbal forms | ||||||
Active | ||||||
Indicative | asem | eresem | osem | orosem | îasem | pesem |
Permissive | t'asem | t'eresem | t'osem | t'orosem | t'îasem | ta pesem |
Imperative | esem | pesem | ||||
Negative indicative | n'asemi | n'eresemi | n'osemi | n'orosemi | n'îasemi | na pesemi |
Negative permissive | t'asem umẽ | t'eresem umẽ | t'osem umẽ | t'orosem umẽ | t'îasem umẽ | ta pesem umẽ |
Negative imperative | esem umẽ | pesem umẽ | ||||
Gerund | ||||||
Affirmative | gûixema | esema | osema | orosema | îasema | pesema |
Negative | gûixeme'yma | eseme'yma | oseme'yma | oroseme'yma | îaseme'yma | peseme'yma |
Nominal forms | ||||||
Infinitive | ||||||
Affirmative | sema | |||||
Negative | seme'yma | |||||
Circumstantial | ||||||
Affirmative | xe semi | i xemi | oré semi | îandé semi | ||
Negative | xe seme'ymi | i xeme'ymi | oré seme'ymi | îandé seme'ymi |
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “sem”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 441, column 1
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese sen, from Latin sine, from Proto-Indo-European *sene.
Pronunciation
[edit]
Audio (Northern Portugal): (file) Audio (Portugal): (file) Audio (Brazil): (file) Audio (Brazil): (file) - Rhymes: (Brazil) -ẽj̃, (Portugal) -ɐ̃j̃
- Homophone: cem
- Hyphenation: sem
Preposition
[edit]sem
- -less; without (not having, containing, characteristic of, etc.)
- (followed by infinitive) without (not doing or not having done something)
Quotations
[edit]For quotations using this term, see Citations:sem.
Synonyms
[edit]- (not having): desprovido de, falto de
Antonyms
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[edit]Descendants
[edit]Romani
[edit]Verb
[edit]sem
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
[edit]Preposition
[edit]sem (Cyrillic spelling сем)
Etymology 2
[edit]From Ancient Greek σῆμα (sêma).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sȇm m (Cyrillic spelling се̑м)
- (semantics) the smallest unit of meaning
Further reading
[edit]- https://staznaci.com/sem
- “sem”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
Slovene
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Proto-Slavic *sěmo.
Adverb
[edit]sem
Etymology 2
[edit]From Proto-Slavic *esmь.
Verb
[edit]sə̏m
Further reading
[edit]- “sem”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024
Tok Pisin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]sem
Zou
[edit]Noun
[edit]sem
References
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- Icelandic terms inherited from Old Norse
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- Old Tupi terms inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani
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- Rhymes:Old Tupi/ɛ̃m
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- Old Tupi lemmas
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- Rhymes:Portuguese/ẽj̃
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- sh:Semantics
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