kame

See also: Appendix:Variations of "kame"

English

Etymology

From Scots, from Middle English cambe (“comb”).

Noun

kame (plural kames)

1. (geology) A round hill or short ridge of sand or gravel deposited by a melting glacier.

Derived terms

• kame delta
• kame terrace

Anagrams

• Maek, make, meak

Chavacano

Alternative forms

• kami

Etymology

Borrowed from Hiligaynon kami.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈme/, [kaˈme]
• Hyphenation: ka‧me

Pronoun

kamé

1. (Cotabateño, Zamboangueño) we (exclusive of the person spoken to)

See also

• nosotros
• nisos

Chavacano personal pronouns

	person	direct (ang)	indirect (ng)	oblique (sa)
singular	first	yo	conmigo	de mio
	second	tu usted vos	contigo con usted con vos	de tuyo
	third	ele	con ele	de suyo
plural	first inclusive	kita	kanaton	de aton
	first exclusive	kami	kanamon	de amon
	second	kamo ustedes vosotros	kaninyo con ustedes	de inyo de ustedes
	third	sila ellos esos	kanila con ellos	de ila

Japanese

Romanization

kame

1. Rōmaji transcription of かめ
2. Rōmaji transcription of カメ

Lithuanian

Pronoun

kame

1. locative of kas

North Frisian

Alternative forms

• kem (Föhr-Amrum)
• kååme (Goesharde)
• keem (Heligoland)
• kaame (Mooring)
• kum (Sylt)
• käme (Wiedingharde)

Etymology

From Old Frisian kuma, from Proto-West Germanic *kweman, from Proto-Germanic *kwemaną (“to come”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷémt (“to step; to arrive”), from *gʷem- (“to come, step”).

Verb

kame

1. (Halligen) to come

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀓𑀫𑁂 (Brahmi script)
• कमे (Devanagari script)
• কমে (Bengali script)
• කමෙ (Sinhalese script)
• ကမေ or ၵမေ (Burmese script)
• กเม or กะเม (Thai script)
• ᨠᨾᩮ (Tai Tham script)
• ກເມ or ກະເມ (Lao script)
• កមេ (Khmer script)
• 𑄇𑄟𑄬 (Chakma script)

Verb

kame

1. optative active singular of kamati (“to travel”)

Scots

Alternative forms

• kaim, kamb, camb

Etymology

Older Scots kame, came, from Middle English cambe (“comb”).

Noun

kame (plural kames)

1. an act of combing
   • 1994 [1920], George P. Dunbar, “A guff o' peat reek”, in Anne Forsyth, Canty and Couthie, page 43:

     She wroct fae shreek o' mornin' till the mirkest oor ye'll name,
     An’ scarce hed time t’ dict her face, nor gie her heid a kaim

     She worked from break of morning until the darkest hour you can name, / And scarcely had time to make up her face, or give her head a combing

2. a steep hill or ridge; the crest of a hill

Verb

kame (third-person singular simple present kames, present participle kamin, simple past and past participle kamet)

1. to comb
   • 1908, Glasgow Ballad Club, “Jenny Kilfunk”, in Ballads and Poems: Third Series, page 115:

     Wi’ her short green goon, an’ her queer red cap,
     An’ her een sae skelly an’ blear ;
     Wi’ her fingers sae lang, aye keepit sa thrang,
     A-kaimin’ her yellow hair

     With her short green gown, and her odd red cap, / And her eyes so squinty and bleary; / With her fingers so long, held so close together, / Combing her yellow hair

2. to rake loose straw or hay
3. to scold, drub

   gie ’im a kamin doun

   give him a dressing down

Swahili

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Bantu [Term?].

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

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Adjective

kame (invariable)

1. dry, arid, barren

Derived terms

• Nominal derivations:
  • ukame (“drought”)