zem
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]zem (plural zems)
- (informal) A zemidjan.
- 2009, Anthony Ham, West Africa, page 109:
- The name of the hotel will draw a blank with most zems so try asking for 'Les Paillotes'.
- 2013, Simon Richmond, Stuart Butler, Lonely Planet Africa:
- The omnipresence of zems (zemijohns; motorbike taxis) has translated into the near disappearance of car taxis […]
Anagrams
[edit]Czech
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Slavic *zemľa, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *źemē (“ground”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰōm.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]zem f
Declension
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “zem”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935-1957
- “zem”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “zem”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
Latvian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Common Balto-Slavic root; compare to zeme.
Preposition
[edit]zem (with genitive)
Synonyms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Mandarin
[edit]Romanization
[edit]zem
- Nonstandard spelling of zěm.
Usage notes
[edit]- Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
Slovak
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Slavic *zemľa, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *źemē (“ground”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰōm.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]zem f
Declension
[edit]Declension of zem
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “zem”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Sudovian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Balto-Slavic *źémē, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰōm. Compare Lithuanian žẽmė, Latvian zeme, Old Prussian semmē.[1][2]
Noun
[edit]zem
- earth, land, soil
- “Pagan dialects from Narew” line 12, (copied by V. Zinov, 1983):
References
[edit]- ^ Zigmas Zinkevičius (1985) “Lenkų-jotvingių žodynėlis? [A Polish-Yotvingian dictionary?]”, in Baltistica, volume 21, number 1 (in Lithuanian), Vilnius: VU, , page 82: “zem ‘žemė, l. ziemie’ 12.”
- ^ “žẽmė” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–): “nar. s. zem Erde [...] Nar. zem ist nicht klar.”.
Categories:
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English informal terms
- English terms with quotations
- Czech terms inherited from Proto-Slavic
- Czech terms derived from Proto-Slavic
- Czech terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Czech terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Czech terms with IPA pronunciation
- Czech terms with audio links
- Czech lemmas
- Czech nouns
- Czech feminine nouns
- Czech soft zero-ending feminine nouns
- Latvian lemmas
- Latvian prepositions
- Latvian prepositions with genitive
- Hanyu Pinyin
- Mandarin non-lemma forms
- Mandarin nonstandard forms
- Slovak terms inherited from Proto-Slavic
- Slovak terms derived from Proto-Slavic
- Slovak terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Slovak terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Slovak terms with IPA pronunciation
- Slovak lemmas
- Slovak nouns
- Slovak feminine nouns
- Slovak terms with declension dlaň
- Sudovian terms inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Sudovian terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Sudovian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Sudovian lemmas
- Sudovian nouns
- xsv:Earth
- Sudovian terms with quotations