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Probably from Proto-Indo-European *ném-e (“to allocate”). The meaning developed from the middle voice “to allocate to oneself”.^[1] Kroonen however follows an alternative derivation of Kortlandt's from *h₁em- (“to take, distribute”), with the initial *n- rebracketed from the perfective prefix *ga- (derived from nasal-final Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm).^[2]

IPA^(key): /ˈne.mɑ.nɑ̃/

*nemaną^[2]^[3]^[4]

to take

Conjugation of *nemaną (strong class 4)

Proto-West Germanic: *neman
- Old English: niman
  - Middle English: nimen, nymen
    - English: nim; numb (from past participle)
    - Scots: nim
- Old Frisian: nima, nema
  - North Frisian:
    Föhr-Amrum: nem
    Mooring: naame
  - Saterland Frisian: níeme
  - West Frisian: nimme
- Old Saxon: niman, neman
  - Middle Low German: nemen
    - Low German: nehmen
- Old Dutch: neman
  - Middle Dutch: nēmen
    - Dutch: nemen
      - Afrikaans: neem
      - Jersey Dutch: nême
      - Negerhollands: neem
      - Skepi Creole Dutch: nemek, name
    - Limburgish: naeme, nömme
- Old High German: nëman
  - Middle High German: nëmen
    - Alemannic German: nää, nee, nèè, nä, në
    - Central Franconian: nemme
      Hunsrik: nemme
    - Cimbrian: nemmen
    - German: nehmen
    - Rhine Franconian:
      Pennsylvania German: nemme
    - Vilamovian: naoma
    - Yiddish: נעמען (nemen)
Old Norse: nema
- Icelandic: nema
- Faroese: nema
- Norwegian Nynorsk: nema
- Old Swedish: nima
  - Swedish: nimma, (förnimma)
- Scanian: nimma
- Danish: nemme
Gothic: 𐌽𐌹𐌼𐌰𐌽 (niman)

^ Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 453
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*neman-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 387
^ Vladimir Orel (2003) “*nemanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎^[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 284
^ Seebold, Elmar (1970) “NEM-A-”, in Vergleichendes und etymologisches Wörterbuch der germanischen starken Verben (Janua Linguarum. Series practica; 85) (in German), Paris, Den Haag: Mouton, →ISBN, page 357

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