beam

Betekenis

tree

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/bɪə̯m/

Etimologie

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

Sinne

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

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

De beam fan inkelde tsientallen meters heech is folslein omwaaid.

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