nemnan

• nemnian

From Proto-West Germanic *namnijan (“to name”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈnem.nɑn/

nemnan

1. to name, call
   • late 9th century, Old English Martyrology

     On þone eahteðan ġeohheldæg bið þæs monðes fruma þe mon nemneð Ianuarius, þæt is on ūre ġeþēode sē æftera ġēola.

     On the eighth day of Christmas is the beginning of the month that people call January, which in our language is After-Yule.

2. to enumerate
3. to address, speak to
4. to nominate
5. to invoke, mention, mention by name
6. to relate

• Middle English: nemnen, nempnen, nevnen, nevenen
  • Scots: nemmin, nem, neme, nevin
  • English: neven

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “NEMNAN”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “NEMNAN supplemental input”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.