deem

English

/diːm/, /dim/

verb
Definitions
  • (transitive) To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to sentence.
  • (transitive) To adjudge, to decree.
  • (transitive) To dispense (justice); to administer (law).
  • (ditransitive) To hold in belief or estimation; to adjudge as a conclusion; to regard as being; to evaluate according to one's beliefs; to account.
  • (ambitransitive) To think, judge, or have or hold as an opinion; to decide or believe on consideration; to suppose.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English demen, dẹ̄men (believe, think, order, deem, impose a penalty on, condemn, sentence, direct, judge, criticize) inherited from Old English dēman (judge, compute, consider, decree, doom, reckon, tell, decide, sentence, declare, determine, deem, think, estimate, examine, praise, prove, condemn, glorify) inherited from Proto-Germanic *dōmijaną (judge, think) derived from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (put, place, set, do, suck, suckle, make), *dʰeh₁- (put, place, set, do, suck, suckle, make).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*dʰeh₁-

Gloss

put, place, set, do, suck, suckle, make

Concept
Semantic Field

Motion

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Kanji

哺

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