Tam
Appearance
See also: Appendix:Variations of "tam"
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Cantonese 譚/谭 (taam4), Cantonese 談/谈 (taam4), etc.
Proper noun
[edit]Tam (plural Tams)
- A surname.
Statistics
[edit]- According to the 2010 United States Census, Tam is the 2703rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 13,327 individuals. Tam is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (90.16%) individuals.
See also
[edit]Norman
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Tam m
- (Jersey) a diminutive of the male given name Thonmas
Scots
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English Thomme.
Proper noun
[edit]Tam
- a diminutive of the male given name Thomas
References
[edit]- “Tam, prop. n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
Tagalog
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Cantonese 譚/谭 (taam4).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈtam/ [ˈt̪am]
- Rhymes: -am
- Syllabification: Tam
Proper noun
[edit]Tam (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜋ᜔)
- a Chinese Filipino surname from Cantonese
Yola
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English Thomme.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Tam
- a male given name, equivalent to English Tom
- 1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 5:
- Mizluck mye lhygt on Tam Busheare;
- Bad luck may light on Tom Busheare;
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 104
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- English terms derived from Cantonese
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English surnames
- Norman lemmas
- Norman proper nouns
- Norman masculine nouns
- Jersey Norman
- Norman given names
- Norman male given names
- Norman diminutives of male given names
- Scots terms inherited from Middle English
- Scots terms derived from Middle English
- Scots lemmas
- Scots proper nouns
- Scots given names
- Scots male given names
- Scots diminutives of male given names
- Tagalog terms borrowed from Cantonese
- Tagalog terms derived from Cantonese
- Tagalog 1-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Tagalog/am
- Rhymes:Tagalog/am/1 syllable
- Tagalog terms with mabilis pronunciation
- Tagalog lemmas
- Tagalog proper nouns
- Tagalog terms with Baybayin script
- Tagalog surnames
- Tagalog surnames from Cantonese
- Yola terms inherited from Middle English
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- Yola lemmas
- Yola proper nouns
- Yola given names
- Yola male given names
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