Models showing the back
(left) and front of a yem.
Borrowed fromVietnamese yếm Proto-Vietic *ʔiɛmʔ ( “ breastplate ” ) , fromOld Chinese 裺 ( /*qromʔ/, /*qoms/ ,“ bib worn by infants ” ) .
yem (plural yems
( clothing ) Vietnamese bodice with ahalterneck and aV-shaped bottom worn bywomen on thetorso , originally as anunderbodice and now also as anouter garment .Hypernyms: bib bodice haltertop ( underbodice ) : Synonyms: ( both in Chinese contexts ) dudou tu-tou ( outer garment ) : Synonym: ao yem Vietnamese bodice with a halterneck and V-shaped bottom
Seehyem [ 1]
yem (notcomparable )
( Geordie ) Alternative spelling ofhyem ( “ home ” ) Bysurface analysis ,ye -m
yem (definite accusative yemi plural yemlər
fodder yem
( Early Middle English ) Alternative form ofem ( “ uncle ” ) yem
( Northern, northern East Midlands ) Alternative form ofþem ( “ them ” ) yem
Alternative form ofyeme ( “ attention, care ” ) Inherited fromOttoman Turkish یم ( yem ,“ food, ration, bait; primer (for a gun) ” ) ,[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] Proto-Turkic *yēm [ 4] [ 5] *yē- ( “ to eat ” ) .[ 6]
IPA (key ) : /ˈjem/ Hyphenation:yem yem (definite accusative yemi plural yemler
feed ,fodder Synonym: yeygi bait ( substance used to allure animals ) ( figuratively ) bait ( anything which allures ) ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890 ) “یم ”, inA Turkish and English Lexicon [1] page2209 ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911 ) “یم ”, inDictionnaire turc-français [2] page1358 ^ Şemseddin Sâmi (1899–1901 ) “یم ”, inقاموس تركی [ kamus-ı türki] page1554 ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972 ) “2 yé:m”, inAn Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish , Oxford: Clarendon Press,page934 ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002– ) “yem Nişanyan Sözlük ^ Starostin, Sergei ,Dybo, Anna ,Mudrak, Oleg (2003 ) “*jē- ”, inEtymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
