namo

namo

1. lake

• Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

namō

1. romanization of 𐌽𐌰𐌼𐍉

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ñamuk.

namo

1. mosquito (small flying insect of the family Culicidae, known for biting and sucking blood)

namo

1. Rōmaji transcription of なも

The adverb form is a clipping of earlier namóp(i), allative singular of nãmas.

• namõ: IPA^(key): /nɐˈmoː/
• nãmo: IPA^(key): /ˈnäː.mɔː/

namõ (not comparable)

1. home, homewards

nãmo m

1. genitive singular of namas

no +‎ mo

namo

1. No more (of discrete items, such as would be described by mo and fewer)
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Prologues”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     Ther was also a Reve and a Millere, / A Somnour and a Pardoner also, / A Maunciple, and myself - ther were namo.

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namo

1. name

   namo Ambo, Amaik

   my name is Ahmad

From Proto-West Germanic *namō.

namo m

1. name

• Middle Dutch: nāme
  • Dutch: naam, name (obsolete)
    • Afrikaans: naam
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: nam
    • Jersey Dutch: nâm
    • Negerhollands: naam
    • Petjo: naam
    • Skepi Creole Dutch: nam, naam
    • → Caribbean Hindustani: nám
  • Limburgish: naam, naom

• “namo”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-West Germanic *namō, whence also Old Saxon namo and Old Dutch namo, Old English nama, Old Norse nafn, Gothic 𐌽𐌰𐌼𐍉 (namō).

namo m

1. name
2. (grammar) noun

• selb namo (manuscript) / selb-namo (editions)

• Middle High German: nâme
  • Alemannic German: Naame

    Italian Walser: namä, noame, nomu, nàmund

  • Bavarian: Nama, Nam, Nåm

    Cimbrian: nåm, name, naamo

    Mòcheno: nu'm

    Udinese: nome, nòmm, nome, nomat

  • German: Name, Namen
  • Luxembourgish: Numm
  • Rhine Franconian:

    Pennsylvania German: Naame

  • Yiddish: נאָמען (nomen)

From Proto-West Germanic *namō.

namo

1. name

• Altsächsisches Elementarbuch (Germanische Bibliothek. I. Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher. I. Reihe: Grammatiken. Fünfter Band; 2nd ed., Heidelberg, 1921) by Dr. F. Holthausen; p. 246 "namo sw. M. Name.", cp. p. 106ff.
• Gerhard Köbler, Altsächsisches Wörterbuch, (5. Auflage) 2014

Inherited from Sanskrit नमः (namaḥ). The Pali root is nam.

namo

1. salutation

Used in formula namo + dative of person honoured.

• namassati (“to venerate”)

Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “namo”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

From Proto-Polynesian *namo. Cognates include Tuvaluan namo and Samoan namo.

• IPA^(key): [ˈna.mo]
• Hyphenation: na‧mo

namo

1. lagoon

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎^[1], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 248