nema

From Old Norse nema, from Proto-Germanic *nemaną, from Proto-Indo-European *nem-, *neme-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈneːma/
• Rhymes: -eːma

nema (third person singular past indicative nam, third person plural past indicative numu, supine nomið)

1. to touch
2. to steal
3. to take
4. to learn
5. to notice

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɛːma/
• Rhymes: -ɛːma

From Old Norse nema, from Proto-Germanic *nemaną, from Proto-Indo-European *nem-, *neme-.

nema (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative nam, third-person plural past indicative námu, supine numið)

1. to take, capture
2. to mine (ore, coal, etc.)
3. to amount to
4. to detect, perceive

   Augað er það skynfæri er nemur ljós.

   The eye is the (that) organ which detects light.

5. to study (a specified subject)

   Ég nem frönsku.

   I study French.

6. (poetic) an auxiliary verb used with a main verb in the infinitive; this construction has the same meaning as the main verb, its inflection simply being transferred to the auxiliary, and serves merely to obtain a fitting rhyme and syllable structure

   Bjarni nam ei fálkann fá – first line of a ditty from Útvarp Matthildur

   = Bjarni fékk ei fálkann: Bjarni did not get the falcon (i.e. the Order of the Falcon)

7. (with the preposition við + accusative) to touch, reach

• nemi
• nemandi
• nám
• næmur

From Old Norse nema.

nema

1. (connecting noun phrases) except
2. (connecting clauses) unless
3. (connecting clauses) but that, whether or not (introducing a hypothetical but likely scenario)

• ber er hver að baki, nema sér bróður eigi

• amen

Borrowed from Ancient Greek νῆμα (nêma).

nēma n (genitive nēmatis); third declension

1. yarn, thread

Third declension neuter.

• nema in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• nema in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

nema

1. Alternative form of nima

From Proto-Germanic *nemaną, from Proto-Indo-European *nem-, *neme-.

nema (singular past indicative nam, plural past indicative námu, past participle numinn)

1. to take

• Icelandic: nema
• Faroese: nema
• Danish: nemme
• Old Swedish: nima
  • Swedish: nimma, (förnimma)
• Westrobothnian: nema
• Scanian: nimma

nema

1. except

• nema in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

From Old Norse nema, from Proto-Germanic *nemaną, from Proto-Indo-European *nem-, *neme-.

• IPA^(key): [nɪ̀ːmɐ]

  Rhymes: -ɪ̀mɐ

nema (preterite & supine nema or nemä)

1. (transitive) to reach for, to touch
2. (transitive) to pull the seine towards oneself slowly while seine fishing

• naamm (“to take”)
• nåm f