נעמען

From Middle High German nemen, nëmen (“to take, grasp”), from Old High German neman (“to take”), from Proto-Germanic *nemaną (“to take”), from Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to distribute, take”); compare German nehmen and Dutch nemen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɛmən/

נעמען • (nemen) (past participle גענומען (genumen))

1. to take, obtain (בײַ (bay, “from”))
2. to get, receive (בײַ (bay, “from”))
3. (followed by infinitive, sometimes reflexive) to take to, begin to, set out to
   • 1967, Chaim Grade, צמח אַטלאַס [Tsemakh Atlas], page 75:

     דער פּיאָנטניצער האָט מיטאיינמאָל פֿאָרלאָרן זיין גאַנצע העזה און זיך גענומען פאַרענטפערן.

     der pyontnitser hot miteynmol forlorn zayn gantse hoze un zikh genumen farentfern.

     The Pyontnitser suddenly lost all of his courage, and began to answer.

• אַראָפּנעמען (aropnemen, “to take down, remove”)
• אַרויסנעמען (aroysnemen, “to take out”)
• מיטנעמען (mitnemen, “to take along, take with one”)
• פֿאַרנעמען (farnemen, “to take up, occupy”)
• אַרונטערנעמען (arunternemen, “to move down”)

נעמען • (nemen) m pl

1. plural of נאָמען (nomen)