▪ I. † nam
am not: see ne and be v. A. I. 1. *, 1 sing.
| c 825 Vesp. Psalter cxviii. 60 ᵹearu ic eam & neam ᵹedroefed. c 950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. iii. 11 His ᵹesceoe nam [Rushw. næm] ic wyrðe beara. c 1200 Ormin 10281 Namm I nohht Godess sune. c 1205 Lay. 14136 Næm [c 1275 nam] ich næuere bute care. a 1240 Ureisun in O.E. Hom. I. 185 Hwi nam ich in þin earmes. c 1305 Edmund Conf. 61 in E.E.P. (1862) 72 Nam ic þi felawe, quaþ þis child. 1390 Gower Conf. I. 67 Seie I noght That I nam somdel for to wyte. c 1450 Lovelich Grail xxxviii. 472 In non wyse nam I not so. 1575 Gascoigne Flowers Wks. 64, I nam..the wisest wight of all. 1576 ― Steele Gl. (Arb.) 50, I n'am a man, as some do thinke I am. |
▪ II. † nam
variant of mnam, mina. Obs.
| 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. vi. 241 Mathew..mouthed thise wordes, That seruus nequam had a nam. |
▪ III. nam
pledge: see naam.
▪ IV. nam
pa. tense of nim v. Obs.