γαμέω
Ancient Greek
verb
Definitions
- I marry
- (middle) I give myself in marriage
- (middle) I get a spouse for, I betroth (generally of parents for their children)
Etymology
Suffix from Ancient Greek γάμος (marriage, matrimony, union).
Origin
Ancient Greek
γάμος
Gloss
marriage, matrimony, union
Concept
Semantic Field
Kinship
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
姻
Emoji
👰♀️ 💒
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- -gamous English
- -gamy English
- agamogenesis English
- gamergate English
- bigamus Latin
- quadrigamus Latin
- -gamia Italian
- γάμος Ancient Greek
- μόνος Ancient Greek
- ἄγαμος Ancient Greek
- *ǵem- Proto-Indo-European
- *ǵeme- Proto-Indo-European
- -gamia Portuguese
- -gam Norwegian Nynorsk
- -gami Norwegian Nynorsk
- apogami Norwegian Nynorsk
- -gamacht Irish
- γάμος Greek (modern)
- γαμιάς Greek (modern)
- kuma Turkish
- zemër Albanian
- *ghemen Proto-Albanian
- γαμέας gkm