gaume

From Old High German goumen, from Proto-Germanic *gaumijaną (“to heed, notice, observe, keep”). Cognate with Old English ġȳman, Icelandic geyma, Norwegian gjømme, Swedish gömma, Danish gemme, Faroese geymi.

gaume

1. (Uri) to guard, watch, herd

• “gaume” in Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & co., page 29.

• (dialectal form) gauma

A borrowing from some Germanic language (cf. Old Norse gaum (“attention”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌿𐌼𐌾𐌰𐌽 (gaumjan, “to notice, to observe”)), first mentioned in 18th-century dictionaries with the meaning of “attention,” a meaning attested dialectally still in the 1870s. The present meaning probably arose via the idea of “attention (to details);” by the end of the 19th century, it had become the standard meaning for this word.[1]

• IPA^(key): [ɡāūme]

gaume f (5th declension)

1. taste (aesthetic and cultural discernment, the sense of what is aesthetically or culturally better)

   laba gaume ― good taste

   ģērbties ar gaumi ― to dress with taste

   izkopt muzikālo gaumi ― to cultivate musical taste

   lēta, slikta gaume ― cheap, poor taste

   mākslinieka gaumi vispirms nosaka prasme atšķirt labu darbu no slikta ― an artist's taste is first of all expressed (as the) capacity to distinguish good work from bad

2. taste (someone's individual preferences)

   tāds darbs ir viņa gaumē ― such work is in his taste

   nē, tādas izpriecas nav manā gaumē ― no, this kind of pastime, entertainment is not in my taste

   plašā piedāvājumā: telpaugi dažādām gaumēm! ― wide selection of house plants for every taste!

   cik vīriešu, tik gaumju ― (there are) as many preferences as (there are) men

3. style, cuisine (following a certain recipe or culinary tradition)

   ēdiens poļu gaumē ― food in Polish taste (= style, i.e., following Polish recipes, tradition)

   pirmo reizi atkal pēc ilgāka laika bija iespējams kārtīgi paēst un pie tam izslavētas vācu gaumē pagatavotās siļķu kotletes ― for the first time again after a long time it was possible to eat well, in fact the celebrated herring meatballs, prepared in the German style (lit. taste)

• garša, garšošana

• gaumīgs, gaumīgums

gaume

1. Alternative form of game