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ņemt

Pronunciation: [ɲɛ̂mt]

“ņemt” is a Latvian word. Its 18 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to take; to seize with one's hands for some purpose
  2. to take; to accept, to enjoy
  3. to take; to cause someone to act in a certain way, to do a certain job; also, to hire someone, to put someone to work
  4. to take; to put someone in a certain situation, condition
  5. to take; to call for duty
  6. to take; to marry
  7. to take along; to cause something, someone to go or be somewhere together with oneself
  8. to take, to get; to obtain something for a certain purpose, use; to learn, to hear about something
  9. to take; to get, to obtain, to acquire, to borrow, to buy
  10. to take; to gather fruits, grains, the harvest
  11. to take; to remove a part of, to work on, to make by removing (also figuratively, about people)
  12. to take; to shoot, to kill someone, to “take someone out”
  13. used to reinforce the intensity or suddenness of the action; to up and…
  14. to take, to consider, to treat, to accept (something as something)
  15. to take, to get and eat; to bite
  16. to cut
  17. to take away; to cause someone to lose something
  18. to take a path, road, direction, to set off in some direction

Etymology

From the convergence of two dialectal forms, nemt and jemt, from Proto-Baltic *nem-, *yem-, two parallel forms ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₁em-, *h₁m̥- (“to take”). The reason for the existence of two parallel forms is unclear. There are several hypotheses: two independent stems that merged in pre-Proto-Indo-European; irregular palatalization of an original n- to y-, an…

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