Nome

See also: nome, nomé, nõme, ñome, and -nôme

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /noʊm/
• Rhymes: -oʊm
• Homophones: nome, gnome

Proper noun

Nome

1. A seaport in West Alaska
2. A cape in West Alaska
3. A river in Alaska

Translations

seaport

• French: Nome (fr)
• Russian: Ном (ru) m (Nom)

cape

Anagrams

• Emon, Mone, NEMO, meno-, meon, mone, nemo, omen

Norwegian

Proper noun

Nome

1. A municipality of Telemark, Norway

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian noma, from Proto-West Germanic *namō. Cognates include West Frisian namme and German Name.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnoːmə/
• Hyphenation: No‧me
• Rhymes: -oːmə

Noun

Nome m (plural Nomen)

1. name
   • 2000, Marron C. Fort, transl., Dät Näie Tästamänt un do Psoolme in ju aasterlauwerfräiske Uurtoal fon dät Seelterlound, Fräislound, Butjoarlound, Aastfräislound un do Groninger Umelounde [The New Testament and the Psalms in the East Frisian language, native to Saterland, Friesland, Butjadingen, East Frisia and the Ommelanden of Groningen], →ISBN, Dät Evangelium ätter Matthäus 1:21:

     Ju skäl n Súun bere; him skääst du dän Nome Jesus reke; dan hie skäl sien Foulk fon sien Sänden ferleze.

     She will bear a son; you will give him the name Jesus; for he will free his people from their sins.

Related terms

• namme (“to name”)

References

• Marron C. Fort (2015) “Nome”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN