ím

See also: Appendix:Variations of "im"

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse ím.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʊiːm/
  • Rhymes: -ʊiːm

Noun

ím n (genitive singular íms, plural ím)

  1. soot

Declension

n3 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ím ímið ím ímini
accusative ím ímið ím ímini
dative ími íminum ímum ímunum
genitive íms ímsins íma ímanna

Hungarian

Etymology

Probably from the original i variant of e (this, demonstrative pronoun) +‎ -m (pronoun-forming suffix for emphasis). First attested after 1416.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈiːm]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -iːm

Interjection

ím

  1. (poetic) behold! see! lo!
    • 1903, Endre Ady, Még egyszer… (Once Again…), poem, lines 1–6 [1]
      Még egyszer meghajolni késztet
      A lelkem régi, színes álma,
      Még egyszer, ím, tárva elétek,
      Ami az enyém, ami drága:
      Piacra vont az ifju évek
      Álmodni vágyó ifjusága ...
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

Compound words

References

  1. ^ ím in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.

Further reading

  • ím in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Old Norse

Etymology

Has an ablaut relationship with eimr. Thus presumedly from Proto-Germanic *īmą, from a marginal Proto-Indo-European root *h₁ey- (~ to burn, smoke), but there are no secure cognates outside of North Germanic, so the origin is uncertain.

Noun

ím n (genitive íms, plural ím)

  1. dust, ashes

Declension

Declension of ím (strong a-stem)
neuter singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ím ímit ím ímin
accusative ím ímit ím ímin
dative ími íminu ímum ímunum
genitive íms ímsins íma ímanna

Descendants

  • Faroese: ím
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: im

Further reading

  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “ím”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 203; also available at the Internet Archive

Umatilla

Pronoun

ím

  1. you, second person singular personal pronoun, nominative case

References