kaam

See also: kääm

East Central German

Etymology

From Middle High German kūme, from Old High German kūmo, from Proto-Germanic *kūmaz, *kūmijaz (“weak, pitiful, frail”), from Proto-Indo-European *gewH- (“to call, cry”).

Adverb

kaam

1. (Erzgebirgisch) barely, hardly
2. (Erzgebirgisch) little

   Synonym: wing

Further reading

• Alte und neue Gedichte und Geschichten in erzgebirgischer Mundart, 12. Heft., P. 36
• Pfarrer Wild'sche und einige andre Gedichte, P. 25

Kwang

Noun

kàām

1. water

References

• Takács, Gábor (2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 201, →ISBN:

  […] we should carefully distinguish the following Ch. roots from AA *m-ˀ "water" [GT]:

  (1) Ch. *h-m "water" [GT]: […] Kwang kàām [Jng.], Kera kan [Ebert] […]

• Etudes berbères et chamito-sémitiques: mélanges offerts à Karl-G. Prasse (2000, →ISBN, page 38

Southeastern Tepehuan

Etymology

Cognate with O'odham ka꞉m, Classical Nahuatl camatl (“mouth”), cantli (“cheek”).

Noun

kaam (plural kaakam, third person singular possession kaamaꞌn, plural kaakmaꞌn)

1. cheek

Derived terms

• kaamtaꞌ

References

• R. de Willett, Elizabeth, et al. (2016) Diccionario tepehuano de Santa María Ocotán, Durango (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 48)‎^[1] (in Spanish), electronic edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 98

West Frisian

Verb

kaam

1. first/third-person singular past of komme