English

Alternative forms

• eame
• eme (Scottish)

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

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.am/

Pronoun

eam

1. accusative feminine singular of ea

Verb

eam

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of eō

Old English

Etymology 1

Contracted from earlier *ēahām, from Proto-Germanic *awahaimaz, from *awô ‎(“grandfather”), Gothic 𐌰𐍅𐍉 ‎(awo, “grandmother”); cognate with Latin avus ‎(“grandfather”), avunculus ‎(“uncle”); Russian dial. уй ‎(uj, “maternal uncle”), Ukrainian вуй ‎(vuj, “uncle”); all from Proto-Indo-European *awos, *h₂éwh₂os ‎(“maternal uncle, maternal grandfather”)) + *haimaz ‎(“intimate, close”). The word is cognate with Old Frisian ēm, Middle Dutch oom (Dutch oom), Old High German oheim (German Oheim, Ohm).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æːɑm/

Noun

ēam m ‎(nominative plural ēamas)

1. uncle (especially maternal)

Declension

Related terms

• fædera

Descendants

• English: eme
• Scots eme

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *immi ‎(“I am”), a form of *wesaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésmi ‎(“am”). More at am.

Alternative forms

• eom, æm

Verb

eam

1. Alternative form of eom