Old English · noun
nama
- Part of speech
- noun, masculine
- Declension
- weak
- IPA
- /ˈnɑ.mɑ/
- Syllables
- ˈnɑ · mɑ (2 syllables)
- Modern English
- namenyem
Meaning
-
name
Nū synd sume men þe nyton hwæt sē nama [Cathedra Sancti Petri] ġetacnaþ.
Now there are some men who don't know what the name Cathedra Sancti Petri means.
late 10th century, Ælfric, Lives of Saints -
noun
Ealle naman...bēoþ ġebīgede on fīf declinungum.
All nouns...are inflected in five declensions.
c. 995, Ælfric, Excerptiones de Arte Grammatica Anglice
Declension
All forms (4)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *namō, from Proto-Germanic *namô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.
Descendants
name, nyem
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