"tem" meaning in Middle English

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Noun

IPA: /tɛːm/ Forms: temes [plural], teem [alternative], teeme [alternative], teme [alternative], teome [alternative], them [alternative], theam [alternative], tæm [alternative, Early-Middle-English], team [alternative, Early-Middle-English]
Rhymes: -ɛːm Etymology: Inherited from Old English tēam, from Proto-West Germanic *taum, from Proto-Germanic *taumaz. Etymology templates: {{etymid|enm|group}}, {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|enm|ang|tēam|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Old English tēam, {{inh+|enm|ang|tēam}} Inherited from Old English tēam, {{inh|enm|gmw-pro|*taum}} Proto-West Germanic *taum, {{inh|enm|gem-pro|*taumaz}} Proto-Germanic *taumaz Head templates: {{head|enm|nouns|g=|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=}} tem, {{enm-noun|temes}} tem (plural temes)
  1. kinfolk, clan, people
    Sense id: en-tem-enm-noun-I~GNAKQX Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Family, People Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 21 11 9 4 15 16 15 1 9 Disambiguation of Family: 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Disambiguation of People: 47 0 0 0 24 24 2 0 2
  2. (law) The privilege of making decisions about ownership disputes between a person's subordinates.
    Sense id: en-tem-enm-noun-R2C-1GTJ Categories (other): Law Topics: law
  3. A group of livestock used to pull an agricultural instrument
    Sense id: en-tem-enm-noun-yFa7jwgB Categories (other): Agriculture, Livestock Disambiguation of Agriculture: 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 0 0 Disambiguation of Livestock: 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 0 0
  4. A group of waterfowl or chickens.
    Sense id: en-tem-enm-noun-yZVk~7R2
  5. descendants, children; also extended to the following:
    Sense id: en-tem-enm-noun-JUgEygCe
  6. descendants, children; also extended to the following:
    (law) The descendants of one's subordinates.
    Sense id: en-tem-enm-noun-CgervbB6 Categories (other): Law Topics: law
  7. (rare) The ability to procreate or give birth. Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-tem-enm-noun-I~BRN6bp
  8. (rare) team, company, band. Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-tem-enm-noun-KeP9lIzV
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: barntem, temen
Etymology number: 1

Verb

Head templates: {{head|enm|verb}} tem
  1. Alternative form of temen (“to give birth, to support”) Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: temen (extra: to give birth, to support)
    Sense id: en-tem-enm-verb-8J-4cF~P
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "args": {},
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      "form": "theam",
      "tags": [
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    },
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      "form": "tæm",
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        "alternative",
        "Early-Middle-English"
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          "disputes"
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          "subordinates"
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        "(law) The privilege of making decisions about ownership disputes between a person's subordinates."
      ],
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      ],
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          "descendants"
        ],
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          "children",
          "children"
        ]
      ],
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        "descendants, children; also extended to the following:"
      ]
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          "kind": "other",
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        }
      ],
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        "descendants, children; also extended to the following:",
        "The descendants of one's subordinates."
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        ],
        [
          "children",
          "children"
        ],
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          "law",
          "law#English"
        ],
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          "subordinates"
        ]
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        "descendants, children; also extended to the following:",
        "(law) The descendants of one's subordinates."
      ],
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        "law"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "The ability to procreate or give birth."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "procreate",
          "procreate"
        ],
        [
          "give birth",
          "give birth"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) The ability to procreate or give birth."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "glosses": [
        "team, company, band."
      ],
      "id": "en-tem-enm-noun-KeP9lIzV",
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        [
          "team",
          "team"
        ],
        [
          "company",
          "company"
        ],
        [
          "band",
          "band"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) team, company, band."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/tɛːm/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛːm"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tem"
}

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        "descendants, children; also extended to the following:",
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        "(law) The descendants of one's subordinates."
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        "The ability to procreate or give birth."
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      ],
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        "team, company, band."
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          "company",
          "company"
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          "band",
          "band"
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      ],
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        "(rare) team, company, band."
      ],
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        "rare"
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    {
      "ipa": "/tɛːm/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛːm"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tem"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Middle English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (9c82c1c and f1c2b61). 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.