ím

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Faroese

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Etymology

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From Old Norse ím.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ím n (genitive singular íms, plural ím)

  1. soot

Declension

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Declension of ím
n3 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ím ímið ím ímini
accusative ím ímið ím ímini
dative ími íminum ímum ímunum
genitive íms ímsins íma ímanna
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Hungarian

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Etymology

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Probably from the original i variant of e (this, demonstrative pronoun) +‎ -m (pronoun-forming suffix for emphasis). First attested after 1416.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈiːm]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -iːm

Interjection

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ím

  1. (poetic) behold! see! lo!
    • 1903, Endre Ady, Még egyszer… (Once Again…), poem, lines 1–6 [1]
      Még egyszer meghajolni késztet
      A lelkem régi, színes álma,
      Még egyszer, ím, tárva elétek,
      Ami az enyém, ami drága:
      Piacra vont az ifju évek
      Álmodni vágyó ifjusága ...
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

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Compound words

References

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  1. ^ ím in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.

Further reading

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  • ím in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Old Norse

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Etymology

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Has an ablaut relationship with eimr. Thus presumedly from Proto-Germanic *īmą, from a marginal Proto-Indo-European root *h₁ey- (~ to burn, smoke), but there are no secure cognates outside of North Germanic, so the origin is uncertain.

Noun

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ím n (genitive íms, plural ím)

  1. dust, ashes

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Faroese: ím
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: im

References

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  • ím in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

Umatilla

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Pronoun

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ím

  1. you, second person singular personal pronoun, nominative case

References

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