yemen

== English == === Noun === yemen plural of yeman === Anagrams === enemy == Allentiac == === Numeral === yemen two === References === Viegas Barros, J. Pedro (2020), “Los numerales de las lenguas huarpes (allentiac y millcayac) [The numerals of the Huarpean languages (Allentiac and Millcayac)]”, in Revista argentina de historiografía lingüística‎[1], volume 12, number 2, pages 169-192 == Middle English == === Etymology 1 === Inherited from Anglian Old English ġēman (West Saxon Old English ġīeman), from Proto-West Germanic *gaumijan, from Proto-Germanic *gaumijaną; by surface analysis, yeme (“attention”) +‎ -en (infinitive suffix). ==== Alternative forms ==== ȝeme, ȝemen, ȝime, yeme gemen, ȝeomen (Early Middle English); ȝemenn (Ormulum) ȝheme, ȝyme (Northwest Midland) gieme, ȝem, yheme, yieme (Northern); ȝheyme (Early Scots) ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ˈjeːmən/ ==== Verb ==== yemen (third-person singular simple present yemeth, present participle yemende, yemynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle yemed) (chiefly Northern or West Midland) (usually transitive) To pay attention or notice: To look after or take care of. To monitor or protect; to keep watch. To adhere or follow (a rule or observance) To govern or administer; to exercise dominion over. (Early Scots) To detain or imprison. (catenative) To ensure or take care (to do). (transitive, rare) To put away; to reserve. ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Descendants ===== Middle Scots: ȝeme ===== References ===== “yẹ̄men, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007. “yeme, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. “ȝem(e, v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC. Carrillo, Maria José (2005), “Lexical dialectal items in Cursor Mundi: contexts of occurrence and geographical distribution”, in SELIM: Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature, number 13, Oviedo: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Oviedo, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 164. === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== yemen plural of yeman