claim
English
/kleɪm/
noun
Definitions
- A demand of ownership made for something.
- The thing claimed.
- The right or ground of demanding.
- A new statement of something one believes to be the truth, usually when the statement has yet to be verified or without valid evidence provided.
- A demand of ownership for previously unowned land.
- (legal) A legal demand for compensation or damages.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English claimen derived from Old French clamer (name, send for, call) derived from Latin clāmō, clamo, clāmāre (call, cry out) derived from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (shout, call, cry, summon, lift, make noise, make a noise), *kelh₁- (shout, call, cry, summon, lift, make noise, make a noise).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*kelh₁-
Gloss
shout, call, cry, summon, lift, make noise, make a noise
Concept
Semantic Field
Speech and language
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- acclamate English
- acclamatory English
- claimability English
- claimable English
- claimer English
- claimest English
- claimeth English
- claimless English
- claimlessness English
- clamorous English
- counterclaim English
- counterclaimer English
- crossclaim English
- declamation English
- declamatory English
- deintercalate English
- exclamative English
- foreclaim English
- inclamation English
- intercalary English
- misclaim English
- multiclaim English
- nonclaim English
- nonclaimable English
- overclaim English
- subclaim English
- unclaim English
- unclaimable English
- underclaim English
- acclamatio Latin
- acclamo Latin
- acclāmātiōnem, acclāmātiō Latin
- acclāmātiōnis, acclāmātiō Latin
- acclāmō Latin
- calatio Latin
- calendārium Latin
- calo Latin
- calō Latin
- clamito Latin
- clamo Latin
- clamor Latin
- clamāre Latin
- clarifico Latin
- clarus Latin
- classis Latin
- clāmor Latin
- clāmāre Latin
- clāmō, clamo, clāmāre Latin
- clārus Latin
- concilio Latin
- concilium Latin
- conciliātus Latin
- conclamo Latin
- declamo Latin
- dēclāmō Latin
- exclamatio Latin
- exclamatus Latin
- exclamo Latin
- exclāmāre, exclamo, exclāmō Latin
- inclamatio Latin
- inclamo Latin
- intercalo Latin
- intercalātus Latin
- kalendarium Latin
- kalendās Latin
- praeclamo Latin
- proclamatio Latin
- proclamo Latin
- proclamo, prōclāmāre, prōclāmō Latin
- prōclāmō Latin
- reclamatio Latin
- reclamo Latin
- reclāmāre, reclāmō, reclamo Latin
- succlamo Latin
- Claim German
- calende Italian
- chiamata Italian
- chiaramente Italian
- chiesucola Italian
- claimen Dutch, Flemish
- clamer French
- clamar Spanish, Castilian
- llamar Spanish, Castilian
- rellamar Spanish, Castilian
- κέλαδος Ancient Greek
- καλέω Ancient Greek
- κλητός Ancient Greek
- παρακαλέω Ancient Greek
- ἀνακαλέω Ancient Greek
- ἐπίκλησις Ancient Greek
- ἐπικαλέω Ancient Greek
- ὁμοκλέω Ancient Greek
- *kel- Proto-Indo-European
- *kelh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *kl̥h₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *kl̥h₁m- Proto-Indo-European
- *kl̥h₁rós Proto-Indo-European
- chamar Portuguese
- *halōną Proto-Germanic
- *hellaną Proto-Germanic
- *helą Proto-Germanic
- *hlōaną Proto-Germanic
- *skellan- Proto-Germanic
- gehlow Old English
- hlōwan Old English
- उषःकल Sanskrit
- claimen Middle English
- claimer Old French
- clamer Old French
- เคลม Thai
- yamar Cebuano
- kleim Afrikaans
- *kalyākos Proto-Celtic
- clamer Romansh
- clomar Romansh
- kalba Lithuanian
- kalbus Lithuanian
- kalbėti Lithuanian
- prokalbė Lithuanian
- lamar Old Spanish
- yama Papiamentu
- ciamâse Ligurian
- clamar Franco-Provençal
- claimer
- unclaim
- nonclaim
- subclaim
- claimest
- claimeth
- misclaim
- overclaim
- acclamate
- claimable
- foreclaim
- clamorous
- claimless
- multiclaim
- crossclaim
- underclaim
- declamatory
- inclamation
- acclamatory
- exclamative
- declamation
- intercalary
- unclaimable
- counterclaim
- nonclaimable
- claimability
- deintercalate
- claimlessness
- counterclaimer