teem

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /tiːm/ Rhymes: -iːm Homophone: team === Etymology 1 === From Middle English temen (“to bear, to support”), from Anglian Old English tēman (“to give birth”) (West Saxon Old English tīeman), from Proto-West Germanic *taumijan (“to bridle”), from Proto-Germanic *taumijaną, from *taumaz ("bridle", continued in Modern English as team). ==== Verb ==== teem (third-person singular simple present teems, present participle teeming, simple past and past participle teemed) To be stocked to overflowing. To be prolific; to abound; to be rife. (of rain, snow, etc) To fall prolifically. (obsolete) To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply. ===== Synonyms ===== ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Noun ==== teem (plural teems) A downpour (of rain). === Etymology 2 === From Middle English temen (“to drain”), from Old Norse tœma, from Proto-Germanic *tōmijaną (“to empty, make empty”). Related to English toom (“empty, vacant”). More at toom. ==== Verb ==== teem (third-person singular simple present teems, present participle teeming, simple past and past participle teemed) (archaic) To empty. To pour (especially with rain) To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mould, with molten metal. (cooking, Scotland, Ireland) To drain the water from (boiled potatoes etc.). ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 3 === From Middle English temen (“to be suitable, befit”), from Old English *teman, from Proto-Germanic *temaną (“to fit”). Cognate with Low German temen, tamen (“to befit”), Dutch betamen (“to befit”), German ziemen. See also tame (adjective) and compare beteem. ==== Verb ==== teem (third-person singular simple present teems, present participle teeming, simple past and past participle teemed) (obsolete, rare) To think fit. === Anagrams === Teme, etem, meet, mete, teme == Dutch == === Pronunciation === === Verb === teem inflection of temen: first-person singular present indicative (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative imperative == Farefare == === Etymology === Cognate with Moore toeeme (“to change”) === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /téːm/ === Verb === teem to move something Sẽŋɛ ka teem bʋʋsɩ la Go move the goats == Middle English == === Noun === teem alternative form of tem (“group”) == Portuguese == === Verb === teem pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1920 in Portugal) of têm ==== Usage notes ==== In Portugal before 1920 (as made official in the 1911 reform), as well as frequently in Brazil before 1943, the third-person plural present indicative of ter was spelled teem. The spelling têm was later introduced. See more in the usage notes at veem.