eam – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of eam

Noun: eam
Gender:

Nominative

Singularēam
Pluralēamas

Genitive

Singularēames
Pluralēama

Dative

Singularēame
Pluralēamum

Accusative

Singularēam
Pluralēamas

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like eam

eþelweard, eaghring, earhring, eþelstaþol, eþl, eam, eow, eþeleard, east,

Etymology

1. Contracted from earlier *ēahām, from Proto-West Germanic *auhaim (“maternal uncle”).
2. See also Gothic 𐌰𐍅𐍉 (awō, “grandmother”); Latin avus (“grandfather”), avunculus (“uncle”), dialectal Russian уй (uj, “maternal uncle”), Ukrainian вуй (vuj, “uncle”), all from Proto-Indo-European *awos, *h₂éwh₂os (“maternal uncle, maternal grandfather”). The word is cognate with Old Frisian ēm, Middle Dutch oom (Dutch oom), Old High German oheim (German Oheim, Ohm). See: Gothic Nouns '𐌰𐍅𐍉', Latin Nouns 'avus', Russian Nouns 'уй', Ukrainian Nouns 'вуй', Dutch Nouns 'oom', German Nouns 'Oheim'.

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