athem

• eathem

From ethem (“breath, vapor, puff, blast”), from Old English ǣþm (“breath, breathing”), from Proto-Germanic *ēþmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eh₁tmén-. Cognate with Dutch adem (“breath”), German Atem (“breath”).

• IPA^(key): /ɑːθ(ə)m/

athem

1. (very rare) Breath. [8th–13th c.]

   Hir (their) eathem shone as doth light among thonner (darkness).

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   (approx. 1225, Homily In Diebus Dominicis in Lambeth)

• The Middle English Dictionary

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːðem/

āthem m

1. Alternative form of āthum

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN