tæmme
Danish
/tɛmə/
verb
Definitions
- tame
- domesticate
- control, curb
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse temja (tame) inherited from Proto-Germanic *tamjaną (tame) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂- (tame, domesticate, dominate), *demh₂- (tame, domesticate, dominate).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*demh₂-
Gloss
tame, domesticate, dominate
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- taamoa Finnish
- damma Latin
- domina Latin
- domito Latin
- domitōrem Latin
- domus Latin
- domō Latin
- indomitabilis Latin
- domo Italian
- δάμνημι Ancient Greek
- δαμάζω Ancient Greek
- δαμάλης Ancient Greek
- δαμνάω Ancient Greek
- ἱππόδαμος Ancient Greek
- *demh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *dm̥h₂-ó- Proto-Indo-European
- *domh₂nos Proto-Indo-European
- *domh₂tos Proto-Indo-European
- *domh₂éyeti Proto-Indo-European
- temme Norwegian Bokmål
- *tamaz Proto-Germanic
- *tamjaną Proto-Germanic
- temja Norwegian Nynorsk
- temje Norwegian Nynorsk
- temian Old English
- tamen Middle English
- tamr Old Norse
- temja Old Norse
- temja Icelandic
- dof Welsh
- zam Old High German
- zemmen Old High German
- temja Faroese
- zam Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- 𐌲𐌰𐍄𐌰𐌼𐌾𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- *tammjan gmw-pro
- *temmen Old Dutch
- *damyeti Proto-Celtic
- *uɸo- Proto-Celtic
- *uɸo-damyeti Proto-Celtic
- *dā́mHyati Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *dā́myati Proto-Indo-Iranian
- tæmia Old Swedish
- tämi Westrobothnian
- *domaō Proto-Italic
- temmen Low German