tame

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English[edit]

Dogs and sheep were among the first animals to be domesticated.

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Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English tame, tome, weak inflection forms of Middle English tam, tom, from Old English tam, tom (“domesticated, tame”), from Proto-Germanic *tamaz (“brought into the home, tame”), from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂- (“to build; home”). Cognate with Scots tam, tame (“tame”), Saterland Frisian tom (“tame”), West Frisian tam (“tame”), Dutch tam (“tame”), Low German tamm, tahm (“tame”), German zahm (“tame”), Swedish tam (“tame”), Icelandic tamur (“tame”).

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tame (comparative tamer, superlative tamest)

  1. Not or no longer wild; domesticated
    They have a tame wildcat.
  2. (chiefly of animals) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact
    The lion was quite tame.
  3. Not exciting
    This party is too tame for me.
    For a thriller, that film was really tame.
    • 2015 February 15, John Oliver, “Tobacco”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 2, episode 2, HBO:
      Wow! So the implication there is that even 12-year-olds in France will find the movie tame. “Yes, eet was a, an amusing erotic trifle, I supposa. Ze love-making was passable, but, uh, belt play is a leettle pedestriahn, don’t you seenk?”.
  4. Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
    • Roscommon
      tame slaves of the laborious plough
  5. (mathematics, of a knot) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
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tame (third-person singular simple present tames, present participle taming, simple past and past participle tamed)

  1. (transitive) to make something tame
    He tamed the wild horse.
  2. (intransitive) to become tame
    • 2006, Gayle Soucek, Doves (page 78)
      Tambourines are shy birds and do not tame easily.
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Etymology 2[edit]

Compare French entamer (“to cut into, to broach”).

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tame (third-person singular simple present tames, present participle taming, simple past and past participle tamed)

  1. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
    • Fuller
      In the time of famine he is the Joseph of the country, and keeps the poor from starving. Then he tameth his stacks of corn, which not his covetousness, but providence, hath reserved for time of need.

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Noun[edit]

tame

  1. glue

Inflection[edit]

Inflection of tame[1]
singular plural
Nominative tame tameh
Accusative tame toomijd
Genitive tame tomij
toomij
Illative taman toomijd
Locative taameest toomijn
Comitative toomijn tomijguin
Abessive tamettáá tomijttáá
Essive tammeen —
Partitive tammeed —

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  1. ^ tame in Giellatekno Inari Sami paradigm generator

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Romanization[edit]

tame

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ため

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Adjective[edit]

tame

  1. absolute definite natural masculine form of tam.
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