shame
English
/ʃeɪm/
noun
Definitions
- Uncomfortable or painful feeling due to recognition or consciousness of one's own impropriety or dishonor or something being exposed that should have been kept private.
- Something to regret.
- Reproach incurred or suffered; dishonour; ignominy; derision.
- The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach and ignominy.
- That which is shameful and private, especially private parts.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English schame inherited from Old English sċamu inherited from Proto-Germanic *skamō.
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*skamō
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antishame English
- beshame English
- cover English
- cover-shame English
- fast English
- fat English
- fat-shame English
- forshame English
- kink English
- kinkshame English
- nonshameful English
- outshame English
- shamable English
- shameable English
- shamee English
- shamefaced English
- shamefacedly English
- shamefacedness English
- shamefast English
- shamefastly English
- shamefastness English
- shameful English
- shamefully English
- shamefulness English
- shameless English
- shamelessly English
- shamelessness English
- shamelike English
- shameproof English
- shamer English
- shamesome English
- shamest English
- shameth English
- shameworthy English
- unshameable English
- unshamefast English
- unshameful English
- Fremdscham German
- Scham German
- Schambehaarung German
- Schamentzündung German
- Schamgefühl German
- Schamhaar German
- Schamhügel German
- Schamröte German
- schamhaft German
- schamlos German
- schämen German
- *(s)kēt- Proto-Indo-European
- *skamō Proto-Germanic
- scamleas Old English
- scamlic Old English
- scamu Old English
- sceomfull Old English
- sċamu Old English
- forshamen Middle English
- schame Middle English
- schamefast Middle English
- schameful Middle English
- shamefast Middle English
- shameles Middle English
- skamma Old Norse
- skǫmm Old Norse
- skam Danish
- skamfuld Danish
- skamme Danish
- scama Old High German
- shamar Ido
- shamigar Ido
- shamo Ido
- skomm Faroese
- schame Middle High German
- 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌼𐌰 Gothic
- skama Old Saxon
- skábma Northern Sami
- Schaam Low German
- skam Old Danish
- shem Chinook Jargon
- fat
- kink
- fast
- cover
- shamer
- shamee
- shameth
- beshame
- shamest
- forshame
- shamable
- shameful
- outshame
- shamelike
- kinkshame
- shamesome
- shameable
- shamefast
- shameless
- fat-shame
- antishame
- unshameful
- shamefully
- shameproof
- shamefaced
- unshameable
- shamefastly
- nonshameful
- unshamefast
- cover-shame
- shamelessly
- shameworthy
- shamefulness
- shamefacedly
- shamelessness
- shamefastness
- shamefacedness