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yeme

yeme verb: to keep, to observe, to pay attention.

Verb

yeme (third-person singular simple present yemes, present participle yeming, simple past and past participle yemed)

  1. (obsolete) To keep, to observe, to pay attention.
    • Nothing Jesus Christ more quemeth (pleaseth) Than love in wedlock where men it yemeth (keepeth);1906, William Henry Schofield, English Literature

Forms of yeme

third-person singular presentyemes
present participleyeming
past participleyemed
pastyemed

Origin of yeme

From Middle English yemen, ȝemen (“to heed, pay attention, observe, keep”), from Old English ġīeman, from Proto-Germanic *gaumijaną (“to heed, notice, observe, keep”). Cognate with Icelandic geyma, Norwegian gjømme, Swedish gömma, Danish gemme, Faroese geymi, Alemannic German gaume, Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌿𐌼𐌾𐌰𐌽 (gaumjan). Doublet of gaum ("to understand, comprehend"), gorm (“to gape, gawk”), and goam (“to recognise, pay attention”), all from Middle English gome, from Old Norse gaum.

Questions about yeme

What does yeme mean?
Yeme means to keep, to observe, to pay attention.
What part of speech is yeme?
Yeme is a verb.
What is the past tense of yeme?
The past tense of yeme is yemed.

Words near yeme in the dictionary

  1. yeman
  2. Yemasee
  3. Yemasees
  4. Yemassee
  5. Yemassees
  6. yeme
  7. yemen
  8. Yemen Arab Republic
  9. Yemeni
  10. Yemenic
  11. Yemeniness

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