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▪ I. † nam am not: see ne and be v. A. I. 1. *, 1 sing.
c825Vesp. Psalter cxviii. 60 ᵹearu ic eam & neam ᵹedroefed. c950Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. iii. 11 His ᵹesceoe nam [Rushw. næm] ic wyrðe beara. c1200Ormin 10281 Namm I nohht Godess sune. c1205Lay. 14136 Næm [c 1275 nam] ich næuere bute care. a1240Ureisun in O.E. Hom. I. 185 Hwi nam ich in þin earmes. c1305Edmund Conf. 61 in E.E.P. (1862) 72 Nam ic þi felawe, quaþ þis child. 1390Gower Conf. I. 67 Seie I noght That I nam somdel for to wyte. c1450Lovelich Grail xxxviii. 472 In non wyse nam I not so. 1575Gascoigne Flowers Wks. 64, I nam..the wisest wight of all. 1576― Steele Gl. (Arb.) 50, I n'am a man, as some do thinke I am. ▪ II. † nam variant of mnam, mina. Obs.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. vi. 241 Mathew..mouthed thise wordes, That seruus nequam had a nam. ▪ III. nam pledge: see naam. ▪ IV. nam pa. tense of nim v. Obs. |