See handtame in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "handtame"
},
"expansion": "Middle English handtame",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "handtam",
"t": "tame enough to be handled"
},
"expansion": "Old English handtam (“tame enough to be handled”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*handutam"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *handutam",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "hand",
"3": "tame"
},
"expansion": "hand + tame",
"name": "com"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "handtam",
"t": "handtame"
},
"expansion": "Dutch handtam (“handtame”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds-de",
"2": "handtamm",
"t": "handtame"
},
"expansion": "German Low German handtamm (“handtame”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "handzahm",
"t": "handtame"
},
"expansion": "German handzahm (“handtame”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English handtame, from Old English handtam (“tame enough to be handled”), from Proto-West Germanic *handutam, equivalent to hand + tame. Cognate with Dutch handtam (“handtame”), German Low German handtamm (“handtame”), German handzahm (“handtame”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more handtame",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most handtame",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "handtame (comparative more handtame, superlative most handtame)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "93 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "79 21",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "89 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "92 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "77 23",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "hand-tameness"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2003, From The Heart of a Bird - Page 50",
"text": "I badly wanted a little more time to work on training them, but simply couldn't find it — so while they grew up friendly and confident, you couldn't exactly called them handtame."
},
{
"ref": "2011, David Tipling, The Bird Photography Field Guide:",
"text": "This is a really popular image with British photographers when photographing Atlantic puffins, which can be hand-tame — indeed, I have had puffins playfully tugging at my laces while sitting on a cliff top!",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2015, Cherry Wilder, A Princess of the Chameln:",
"text": "Tamir was all her joy. She had him hand-tame, spoiled him most tenderly.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Tame and accustomed to being held in the hand; (by extension) mild; meek; humble; docile"
],
"id": "en-handtame-en-adj-c-HXHZ72",
"links": [
[
"Tame",
"tame"
],
[
"hand",
"hand"
],
[
"mild",
"mild"
],
[
"meek",
"meek"
],
[
"humble",
"humble"
],
[
"docile",
"docile"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "tame and accustomed to being held in the hand; mild; meek; humble; docile",
"word": "handzahm"
}
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "hand-tame"
}
],
"word": "handtame"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "handtame"
},
"expansion": "Middle English handtame",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "handtam",
"t": "tame enough to be handled"
},
"expansion": "Old English handtam (“tame enough to be handled”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*handutam"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *handutam",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "hand",
"3": "tame"
},
"expansion": "hand + tame",
"name": "com"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "handtam",
"t": "handtame"
},
"expansion": "Dutch handtam (“handtame”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds-de",
"2": "handtamm",
"t": "handtame"
},
"expansion": "German Low German handtamm (“handtame”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "handzahm",
"t": "handtame"
},
"expansion": "German handzahm (“handtame”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English handtame, from Old English handtam (“tame enough to be handled”), from Proto-West Germanic *handutam, equivalent to hand + tame. Cognate with Dutch handtam (“handtame”), German Low German handtamm (“handtame”), German handzahm (“handtame”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "handtames",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "handtaming",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "handtamed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "handtamed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "handtame (third-person singular simple present handtames, present participle handtaming, simple past and past participle handtamed)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1964, Senior Citizen, volume 10, page 40:",
"text": "Even children can handtame wild birds, if they follow Al Martin's simple directions.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2003, Brats in Feathers, Keeping Canaries - Page 49",
"text": "So now that you've decided to handtame your canary, just where do you start?"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To cause (someone or something) to become accustomed to being handled"
],
"id": "en-handtame-en-verb-OajoCXJr",
"translations": [
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to cause to become accustomed to being handled",
"word": "handzahm machen"
}
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "hand-tame"
}
],
"word": "handtame"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English compound terms",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms derived from Old English",
"English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Old English",
"English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
"English verbs",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with German translations"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "hand-tameness"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "handtame"
},
"expansion": "Middle English handtame",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "handtam",
"t": "tame enough to be handled"
},
"expansion": "Old English handtam (“tame enough to be handled”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*handutam"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *handutam",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "hand",
"3": "tame"
},
"expansion": "hand + tame",
"name": "com"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "handtam",
"t": "handtame"
},
"expansion": "Dutch handtam (“handtame”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds-de",
"2": "handtamm",
"t": "handtame"
},
"expansion": "German Low German handtamm (“handtame”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "handzahm",
"t": "handtame"
},
"expansion": "German handzahm (“handtame”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English handtame, from Old English handtam (“tame enough to be handled”), from Proto-West Germanic *handutam, equivalent to hand + tame. Cognate with Dutch handtam (“handtame”), German Low German handtamm (“handtame”), German handzahm (“handtame”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more handtame",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most handtame",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "handtame (comparative more handtame, superlative most handtame)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2003, From The Heart of a Bird - Page 50",
"text": "I badly wanted a little more time to work on training them, but simply couldn't find it — so while they grew up friendly and confident, you couldn't exactly called them handtame."
},
{
"ref": "2011, David Tipling, The Bird Photography Field Guide:",
"text": "This is a really popular image with British photographers when photographing Atlantic puffins, which can be hand-tame — indeed, I have had puffins playfully tugging at my laces while sitting on a cliff top!",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2015, Cherry Wilder, A Princess of the Chameln:",
"text": "Tamir was all her joy. She had him hand-tame, spoiled him most tenderly.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Tame and accustomed to being held in the hand; (by extension) mild; meek; humble; docile"
],
"links": [
[
"Tame",
"tame"
],
[
"hand",
"hand"
],
[
"mild",
"mild"
],
[
"meek",
"meek"
],
[
"humble",
"humble"
],
[
"docile",
"docile"
]
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "hand-tame"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "tame and accustomed to being held in the hand; mild; meek; humble; docile",
"word": "handzahm"
}
],
"word": "handtame"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English compound terms",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms derived from Old English",
"English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Old English",
"English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
"English verbs",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with German translations"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "handtame"
},
"expansion": "Middle English handtame",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "handtam",
"t": "tame enough to be handled"
},
"expansion": "Old English handtam (“tame enough to be handled”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*handutam"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *handutam",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "hand",
"3": "tame"
},
"expansion": "hand + tame",
"name": "com"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "handtam",
"t": "handtame"
},
"expansion": "Dutch handtam (“handtame”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds-de",
"2": "handtamm",
"t": "handtame"
},
"expansion": "German Low German handtamm (“handtame”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "handzahm",
"t": "handtame"
},
"expansion": "German handzahm (“handtame”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English handtame, from Old English handtam (“tame enough to be handled”), from Proto-West Germanic *handutam, equivalent to hand + tame. Cognate with Dutch handtam (“handtame”), German Low German handtamm (“handtame”), German handzahm (“handtame”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "handtames",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "handtaming",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "handtamed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "handtamed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "handtame (third-person singular simple present handtames, present participle handtaming, simple past and past participle handtamed)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1964, Senior Citizen, volume 10, page 40:",
"text": "Even children can handtame wild birds, if they follow Al Martin's simple directions.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2003, Brats in Feathers, Keeping Canaries - Page 49",
"text": "So now that you've decided to handtame your canary, just where do you start?"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To cause (someone or something) to become accustomed to being handled"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "hand-tame"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to cause to become accustomed to being handled",
"word": "handzahm machen"
}
],
"word": "handtame"
}
Download raw JSONL data for handtame meaning in English (6.1kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.