yam

SubstantivSubstantivVerbVerbVerbin Dialogen belegt

Vereinigtes Königreich//jam//
Vereinigte Staaten//jæm//
Australien//jæːm//
/[jeəm] ~ [jɛəm]/
/[jeːm] ~ [jɛːm]/

Any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, usually cultivated.

Substantiv

1
Any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, usually cultivated.
2
The edible, starchy, tuberous root of that plant, a tropical staple food.
Inwardly Okonkwo knew that the boys were still too young to understand fully the difficult art of preparing seed-yams. But he thought that one could not begin too early. Yam stood for manliness, and he who could feed his family on yams from one harvest to another was a very great man indeed.
3
A sweet potato; a tuber from the species Ipomoea batatas.
4
A potato.
5
An oca; a tuber from the species Oxalis tuberosa.
6
Taro.
7
An orange-brown colour, like the flesh of the yam.

Herkunft

Borrowed from Portuguese inhame and Spanish ñame, likely from Wolof ñàmbi (“cassava”) or a related word. The term was spelled yam as early as 1657.

Substantiv

1
Home.

Herkunft

Alternative form of hjem. Likely caused by influence from Old Norse heim (“home, homewards”), the accusative form of heimr (“abode, world, land”), from Proto-Germanic *haimaz. More at home.

Verb

1
Variante von amPronunciation spelling of am.
“Stay, jailer, stay, and hear my woe,” repeating again and again, very softly, the line at the end of each stanza, “I am not mad, I am not mad.” Except she sang it: “I yam not mad, I yam not mad.”

Verb

1
SlangTo eat.
“If I was that snake I’d just open my jaw and yam that fool up in one bite!”

Herkunft

Ultimately from Fula nyaamude (“to eat”) or a cognate Fula-Wolof term.

Verb

1
To dunk on; to beat humiliatingly.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:yam.

Herkunft

Apparently a variation of jam (“dunk”, verb).

Formen

Plural: yams
Präteritum: yammed
Partizip II: yammed
Partizip I: yamming
3. Person Singular: yams

yakuza · A Japanese organized crime gang.yale · A mythical beast in European mythology and heraldry, usually…Yale · A university in the eastern United States.

yam · Any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, usually cultivated.

Yam · A surname.Yamada · A surname from Japanese.Yamamoto · A surname from Japanese, one of the 10 most common in Japan.

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