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▪ I. † eme Obs. exc. dial.
Forms: 1–3 éam, (2 eom), 2–5 em, (3 æem, æm, heam, he(e)m), 4–5 eem(e, 4–6 eme, Sc. eym(e, (5 emme, yem), 4–7 eam(e, 8 dial. eem, 9 Sc. eme, north. dial. eam.
[Com. WGer.: OE. éam = OFris. êm (MDu. oem, Du. oom), OHG. ôheim (MHG. ôheim, œheim, -hein, mod.Ger. oheim, ohm); if the word existed in OTeut. the type would be *auhaimo-z; presumed to be a compound or derivative of *awo-z = L. avus grandfather (of which the L. avunculus, uncle, is a diminutive). It is believed that the original sense of the WGer. word was ‘mother's brother’ (cf. L. avunculus); but in later use it is applied to a father's brother as well.]
An uncle; also dial. a friend, gossip.
Beowulf 881 He swulces hwæt secᵹan wolde eam his nefan. c1000ælfric Gen. xxviii. 2 Nim þe wif of Labanes dohtrum þinis eames. 1154O.E. Chron. an. 1137 He sculde ben alsuic alse þe eom wes. c1205Lay. 8142 Androgeus wes his hem. Ibid. 8832 Nu is min eam wel bi-ðoht. Ibid. 11174 Hire æem [c 1275 heam] Leonin wes in Rome. Ibid. 111464 His fader wes ælenen æm. c1250Gen. & Ex. 1758 Ðus meðelike spac ðis em. c1330Arth. & Merl. 4583 Gif min eme be king Arthour. c1340Cursor M. 3789 (Trin.) Laban þin eeme. 1375Barbour Bruce x. 305 To help hys eyme. c1425Wyntoun Cron. ix. xviii. 7 His Eym þan Erle of Fyfe. c1465Eng. Chron. 73, I am thyne eme, thy faderes brother. c1565Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (1728) 19 His eames, William, earl of Douglas and David his brother. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. xxii, Henry Hotspur and his eame The earl of Worcester. 1674Ray N. Country Wds. 16 Mine Eam: My Unkle, also generally my Gossip, my Compere. 1724Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1733) II. 182 Rob my eem hecht me a stock. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xii, ‘Didna his eme die..wi' the name of the Bluidy Mackenyie?’ 1855Whitby Gloss., Eam or Eeam, ‘mine eam’, my uncle, friend, gossip.
▪ II. eme
variant of yeme, Obs., heed. |