Faroese

Verb

nema ‎(third person singular past indicative nam, third person plural past indicative numu, supine nomið)

1. to touch
2. to steal
3. to take
4. to learn
5. to notice

Conjugation

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɛːma/
• Rhymes: -ɛːma

Etymology 1

From Old Norse nema, from Proto-Germanic *nemaną, from Proto-Indo-European *nem-, *neme-.

Verb

nema ‎(strong verb, third-person singular past indicative nam, third-person plural past indicative námu, supine numið)

1. to take, capture
2. to mine (ore, coal, etc.)
3. to amount to
4. to detect, perceive

   Augað er það skynfæri er nemur ljós.

   The eye is the (that) organ which detects light.

5. to study (a specified subject)

   Ég nem frönsku.

   I study French.

6. (poetic) an auxiliary verb used with a main verb in the infinitive; this construction has the same meaning as the main verb, its inflection simply being transferred to the auxiliary, and serves merely to obtain a fitting rhyme and syllable structure

   Bjarni nam ei fálkann fá – first line of a ditty from Útvarp Matthildur

   = Bjarni fékk ei fálkann: Bjarni did not get the falcon (i.e. the Order of the Falcon)

7. (with the preposition við + accusative) to touch, reach

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• nemi
• nemandi
• nám
• næmur

Etymology 2

From Old Norse nema.

Conjunction

nema

1. (connecting noun phrases) except
2. (connecting clauses) unless
3. (connecting clauses) but that, whether or not (introducing a hypothetical but likely scenario)

Derived terms

• ber er hver að baki, nema sér bróður eigi

Anagrams

• amen

Latin

Etymology

Borrowing from Ancient Greek νῆμα ‎(nêma)

Noun

nēma n ‎(genitive nēmatis); third declension

1. yarn, thread

Inflection

Third declension neuter.

References

• nema in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “nema”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Old Frisian

Verb

nema

1. Alternative form of nima