# ame
## Afade
### Alternative forms

* (various orthographies:) ʔâm / ámeh / ameː / hămē / ame̱

### Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Chadic *ymn.

### Noun

ame
* water

### References

* Takács, Gábor (2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 201, →ISBN:
    […] we should carefully distinguish the following Ch. roots from AA *m-ˀ "water" [GT]:
    (1) Ch. *h-m "water" [GT]: […] Afd. ámeh [ame(ː)] [Stz.] = hămē [Barth] = ame̱ [Lbf.], […]

## Afrikaans
### Noun

ame
* plural of aam

## Albanian
### Etymology

Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin amia (“sea fish”), derived from Ancient Greek ἀμία (amía).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈamɛ/

### Noun

ame f (plural ame, definite ame, definite plural amet)
* brown meagre (Sciaena umbra)
    Synonym: lojbë

#### Declension
### References

* ↑ Topalli, K. (2017) “ame”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 96

## Chamicuro
### Noun

ame
* axe, hatchet

## Cheyenne
### Noun

ame (inanimate)
* pemmican

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From ami +‎ -e.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈame]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ame
* Hyphenation: a‧me

### Adverb

ame
* with love, in love, lovingly
** Edmond Privat, Vivo de Zamenhof, Ĉapitro 11,
    Ame ĉirkaŭata, li sidadis en la mezo de la kongresanoj kun edzino.
       Surrounded with love, he would sit with his wife in the midst of those attending the congress.
** Stellan Engholm, Infanoj en Torento, Dua Parto, Ĉapitro III,
    li subite metis sian brakon ĉirkaŭ ŝian kolon kaj ame rigardis en ŝiajn okulojn.
       he suddenly put his arm around her neck and looked lovingly into her eyes.

## Ewe
### Noun

ame (plural amewo)
* man (human)

#### Related terms

* amegbetɔ

## Galician
### Verb

ame
* inflection of amar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Japanese
### Romanization

ame
* Rōmaji transcription of あめ

## Kalo Finnish Romani
### Pronoun

ame
* we

### References

* “ame” in Finnish Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.

## Laurentian
### Etymology

From Proto-North Iroquoian *ˈaːwẽɁ, ultimately from Proto-Iroquoian *awẽɁ.

### Noun

ame
* water
* Charles Julian (2010) A history of the Iroquoian Languages‎, University of Manitoba, page 461

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* ayme, awme

### Etymology

Borrowed from Old French aesme, esme.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈaːm(ə)/

### Noun

ame (plural ames)
* evaluation, guess, opinion; plan, intention
* aim, purpose

#### Descendants

* English: aim
* Yola: aim

#### References

* “āme, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

## Middle French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French ame, from Latin anima.

### Noun

ame f (plural ames)
* soul; spirit

#### Descendants

* French: âme

## Mpade
### Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Chadic *ymn.

### Noun

ame pl
* water

### References

* S. Allison, Makary Kotoko Provisional Lexicon (SIL)

## Murui Huitoto
### Etymology

Cognates include Minica Huitoto ame and Nüpode Huitoto ame.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈamɛ]
* Hyphenation: a‧me

### Root

ame
* wood

#### Derived terms

* amena

### References

* Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎, Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 271

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* anima (9th and 10th centuries)
* anme (11th century)
* alme (12th century)

### Etymology

From Latin anima.

### Noun

ame oblique singular, f (oblique plural ames, nominative singular ame, nominative plural ames)
* soul; spirit

#### Descendants

* Middle French: ame
** French: âme
* Walloon: åme

### References

* Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX$^e$ au XV$^e$ siècle (1881) (ame, supplement)
* ame on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈɐ̃.mi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈɐ̃.mi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈɐ.me/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈɐ.mɨ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈɐ.mɨ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈa.mɨ/
* Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɐmɨ, (Brazil) -ɐ̃mi
* Hyphenation: a‧me

### Verb

ame
* inflection of amar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Rayón Zoque
### Noun

ame
* year

### References

* Harrison, Roy, B. de Harrison, Margaret, López Juárez, Francisco, Ordoñes, Cosme (1984) Vocabulario zoque de Rayón (Serie de diccionarios y vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 28)‎ (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 3

## Romani
### Pronoun

ame
* Alternative form of amen (“we”)

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈame/ [ˈa.me]
* Audio (Venezuela):(file)
* Rhymes: -ame
* Syllabification: a‧me

### Verb

ame
* inflection of amar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Tangam
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Tani *a-mə, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mej. Cognates include Burmese မီး (mi:) and Tibetan མེ (me).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈa˧˥me˥˩/

#### Noun

ámè
* fire

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈa˥˩me˧˥/

#### Adjective

àmé
* small

### References

* Mark W. Post (2017) The Tangam Language: Grammar, Lexicon and Texts, →ISBN

## Tarantino
### Verb

ame
* first-person plural present indicative of avere

## Umbundu
### Pronoun

ame
* I (first-person singular pronoun)

#### See also

| | singular | plural |
| first-person | ame | etu |
| second-person | ove | ene |
| third-person | eye | ovo |

## Uneme
### Etymology

From Proto-Edoid *a-mɪ̃, see Edo amẹ, Yekhee amɛ, and other Edoid languages

### Noun

ame
* water

### References

* The History of Ogori (1970), in notes

## Urhobo
### Etymology

Proposed to be derived from Proto-Edoid *a-mɪ̃, compare with Edo amẹ and distantly related to Yoruba omi, Igbo mmiri.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /à.mẽ̀/

### Noun

ame
* water

### References

* N. Rolle, Nasal vowel patterns in West Africa, citing own field notes and Ukere 2005 [1986]

## Ye'kwana
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ame]

### Verb

ame
* (transitive) to lick
* (transitive) to suck
* (transitive) to eat (something sweet)

#### Derived terms

* atame

### References

* Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ame”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon
* Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “ameedö”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎, Museu do Índio/FUNAI

## Zirenkel
### Noun

ame
* water

### References

* Eric Johnson, Calvain Mbernodji, Enquête sociolinguistique de la langue Moubi du Tchad, SIL Electronic Survey Reports (2006), page 24