beam

(Engels)

1. (common-gender) tree
2. (common-gender) beam

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/bɪə̯m/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Old Frisian: bām

Verwante met Nederlands: boom

Verwante met Engels: beam

Verwante met Duits: Baum

In summary

From Old Frisian bām, from Proto-West Germanic *baum.
Cognate with Dutch boom, English beam, German Baum.

Sinne

De beam fan inkelde tsientallen meters heech is folslein omwaaid.

The tree, several tens of meters high, was completely blown over.

Heit hat dy beam plante doe't er noch in lytse jonge wie.

Father planted that tree when he was still a little boy.