FromOld Norsenema, fromProto-Germanic*nemaną, fromProto-Indo-European*nem-,*neme-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈneːma/

  Rhymes:-eːma

nema (third person singular past indicativenam,third person plural past indicativenumu,supinenomið)

1. totouch,seize
   1. totouch on,refer to
   2. tomake an impression,influence
2. tosteal
3. tolearn
4. tonotice

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɛːma/
• Rhymes:-ɛːma

FromOld Norsenema, fromProto-Germanic*nemaną, fromProto-Indo-European*nem-,*neme-.

nema (strong verb,third-person singular past indicativenam,third-person plural past indicativenámu,supinenumið)

1. totake,capture
2. tomine (ore, coal, etc.)
3. toamount to
4. todetect,perceive

   Augað er það skynfæri ernemurljós.

   The eye is the (that) organ whichdetectslight.

5. tostudy (a specified subject)

   Égnemfrönsku.

   IstudyFrench.

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

   Bjarninam ei fálkann fá

   [Bjarni fékk ei fálkann]

   Bjarni did not get the falcon (i.e. theOrder of the Falcon)

   (first line of a ditty from Útvarp Matthildur)

7. totouch, toreach [withvið(+accusative)]

This verb needs aninflection-table template.

• nemi
• nemandi
• nám
• næmur

FromOld Norsenema.

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

nema

1. Rōmaji transcription ofねま

Borrowed fromAncient Greekνῆμα(nêma).

nēma n (genitivenēmatis);third declension

1. yarn,thread

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• “nema”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• nema inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

nema

1. Alternative form ofnima

FromProto-Germanic*nemaną, fromProto-Indo-European*nem-,*neme-.

nema (singular past indicativenam,plural past indicativenámu,past participlenuminn)

1. totake
   1. tolearn (especially by heart)

      hón kvað, en hannnam

      she sung, and hememorized it

      eknam vísur at vísum mǫnnum

      Ilearned verses from wise men

2. tobegin

   hannnam eta

   hebegan to eat

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

From a form related toné(“not; nor”), ultimately fromProto-Germanic*ne(“not”). Probably cognate withOld Englishnefne,Old Englishnemne(“except, unless”).

nema

1. except,unless,save

   Hann drap alla sveinanema einn.

   He slew all the boys,save one.

2. but
   • 1200s,Old Norwegian Homily Book(AM 619 4to.),Matthew 10:34-35
   • Eigi kom ek til þess at senda friðnema heldr sverð, til þess kom ek at skilja sun frá feðr ok dóttur frá móður sinni.

     I did not come to bring peace,but rather a sword, I came to separate son from father, and daughter from her mother.

• né(“not; nor”)

• Icelandic:nema
• Faroese:neman
• Old Swedish:numa,num

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “nema”, inA Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at theInternet Archive

nema

1. present/imperativeactivefirst-personplural ofneti(“to lead”)

nema

1. inflection ofnem:
   1. femininenominative/vocativesingular
   2. indefinitemasculine/neutergenitivesingular
   3. indefiniteanimatemasculineaccusativesingular
   4. neuternominative/accusative/vocativeplural

nema (Cyrillic spellingнема)

1. third-personsingularpresent ofnemati

nema f (pluralnemas)

1. seal of a letter

• “nema”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

• IPA^(key): /n̪e.ˈma/

nema

1. (proximal)this,these

   Synonyms:ne,mene

   caritanema ―this story

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982)The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics (asnemá)

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