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name

noun
/neɪm//n(j)ɑmeɪ/

Etymology

PIE word *h₁nómn̥ Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ Proto-Germanic *namô Proto-West Germanic *namō Old English nama Middle English name English name From Middle English name, nome, from Old English nama, noma, from Proto-West Germanic *namō, from Proto-Germanic *namô (“name”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (“name”). Cognates Germanic Cognates: Yola naame, name, naume (“name”), North Frisian Naam, neem, noome, nööm (“name”), Saterland Frisian Nome, Noome (“name”), West Frisian namme (“name”), Alemannic German Naame, namä, noame, nomu, nàmund (“name”), Cimbrian naamo, name, nåm (“name”), Dutch naam, name (“name”), German Nahme, Name (“name”), German Low German Naam (“name”), Luxembourgish Numm (“name”), Mòcheno nu'm (“name”), Vilamovian noma (“name”), Yiddish נאָמען (nomen, “name”), Danish, Faroese and Norwegian Bokmål navn (“name”), Icelandic nafn (“name”), Norwegian Nynorsk nabn, namn (“name”), Swedish namn (“name”), Gothic 𐌽𐌰𐌼𐍉 (namō, “name”). Indo-European Cognates: Latin nōmen (“name”) (whence Spanish nombre (“name”)), Russian имя (imja, “name”), Ashkun nām (“name”), Kamkata-viri nom, num (“name”), Prasuni nom, nëmë (“name”), Waigali nām (“name”), Sanskrit नामन् (nā́man, “name”). Possible cognates outside of Indo-European include Finnish nimi (“name”) and Hungarian név (“name”). Doublet of nomen and noun.

  1. inherited from *h₁nómn̥✻ — “name”
  2. inherited from *namô✻ — “name”
  3. inherited from *namō✻
  4. inherited from nama
  5. inherited from name

Definitions

  1. Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.

    • I've never liked the name my parents gave me so I changed it at the age of twenty.
    • What's your name? Puddintane. Ask me again and I'll tell you the same.
    • That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.

  2. A reputation.

    • Good name in man and woman, dear my lord Is the immediate jewel of their souls.
    • The parish stank of idolatry, abominable rites were practiced in secret, and in all the bounds there was no one had a more evil name for the black traffic than one Alison Sempill, who bode at the Skerburnfoot.
    • And David won a name for himself.

  3. An abusive or insulting epithet.

    • Stop calling me names!
  4. ›+ 14 more definitions

    1. A person (or legal person).

      • They list with women each degenerate name.
      • Would it be able to fight the competition from ITC Agro Tech and Liptons who were ready and able to commit large resources? With such big names as competitors, would this business be viable for Marico?

    2. Those of a certain name

      Those of a certain name; a race; a family.

      • The ministers of the republic, mortal enemies of his name, came every day to pay their feigned civilities.

    3. An authority

      An authority; a behalf.

      • Halt in the name of the law!

    4. An identifier, generally a unique string of characters.

    5. An investor in Lloyd's of London bearing unlimited liability.

    6. To give a name to.

      • One visitor named Hou Yugang said he was not too concerned about climate change and Baishui’s melting.
      • I will name the fellow 'Jack Pumpkinhead!'
      • A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.

    7. To mention, specify.

      • He named his demands.
      • You name it!
      • You have to pot the ball in the pocket you've named.

    8. To identify as relevant or important

      • naming the problem

    9. To publicly implicate by name.

      • The painter was named as an accomplice.

    10. To disclose the name of.

      • Police are not naming the suspect as he is a minor.

    11. To designate for a role.

      • My neighbor was named to the steering committee.

    12. To initiate a process to temporarily remove a member of parliament who is breaking the…

      To initiate a process to temporarily remove a member of parliament who is breaking the rules of conduct.

      • I must warn the Right Honourable gentleman, that if he persists in his refusal to comply with my order to withdraw [the words "deliberately deceptive"], I shall be compelled to name him.

    13. Any of several types of true yam (Dioscorea) used in Caribbean Spanish cooking.

    14. Abbreviation of North American English.

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Derived

bename, codename, misname, my very easy method just speeds up naming planets, name after, name and shame, name names, outname, rename, to be named later, unname, you name it

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for name. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA