gamen

Borrowed from English game.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡeːmə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: ga‧men

gamen

1. (intransitive) to play a video game

• gamer

• game

• magen

English game +‎ -en

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡeːmən/, /ˈɡɛɪ̯mən/

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gamen (weak, third-person singular present gamt or (proscribed) gamet, past tense gamte or (proscribed) gamete, past participle gegamt or (proscribed) gegamet or (proscribed) gegamed, auxiliary haben)

1. (colloquial, intransitive) to play a video game

   Synonyms: daddeln, zocken

   • 2016, Christoph Ernst, Weihnachten hart + zart: 24 und eine Geschichte von acht Autoren, Kadera Verlag Günther Döscher, →ISBN:

     Die meiste Zeit haben der Weihnachtsmann und ich gegeneinander gegamt, Mimi und Hannes saßen mit roten Backen um uns rum und fieberten richtig mit.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “gamen” in Duden online
• “gamen”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)

gamen

1. Rōmaji transcription of がめん

Inherited from Old English gamen / gomen, from Proto-West Germanic *gaman, from Proto-Germanic *gamaną, of disputed origin. Compare game.

• gemen (Kent); gammen, gamin, gamyn (Northern); gammyn, gammyne (Early Scots)
• gammon, gamon, gomen, gomin, gomun, gomyn (West Midland)

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaːmən/, /ˈɡamən/
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔ̞ːmən/, /ˈɡɔmən/ (West Midland, from Old English gomen)
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɛ̞ːmən/, /ˈɡɛmən/ (Kent)

gamen (plural gamnes or gamen)

1. Joy, entertainment; that which amuses or gladdens:
   1. Sexual or romantic dalliance (including sexual intercourse).
   2. An amusement or festivity; an instance of merriment.
   3. A joke or gag; something humorous.
2. A game; a codified (and often competitive) form of entertainment:
   1. Hunting or fishing; capture of animals as a sport.
   2. (rare) Gamesmanship; gaming behaviour.
   3. (rare) The reward for winning a game.
3. Game; wild animals hunted as food:
   1. (rare) One's quarry; that which one is trying to catch.
4. (figuratively) An event or endeavour; something occuring.

• gamenen
• gamenful
• gamenly

• English: gammon (dialectal)
• Middle Scots: gamyn, gammyn

• “gāme, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “game, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Either an alteration of gamenen after game +‎ -en or a phonetic evolution of it parallel to the development of gamen (“game”) into game.

• game, gamme

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaːmən/, /ˈɡamən/

gamen (third-person singular simple present gameth, present participle gamende, gamynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle gamed)

1. (intransitive) To joke, play, or entertain oneself; to be joyful.
2. (transitive) To amuse; to make entertained or joyful.
3. (impersonal, rare) To be amused or pleased.

• English: game
• Yola: gaame, gaume, gaaume

• “gāmen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 9 July 2019.

gamen

1. (County Durham, West Riding) alternative form of gamenen

• gomen

From Proto-West Germanic *gaman, from Proto-Germanic *gamaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑ.men/

gamen n

1. game, sport, or pastime
2. joy, mirth, or pleasure
   • 10th century, The Seafarer:

     Hwīlum ylfete song dyde iċ mē tō gomene, ganetes hlēoþor ond huilpan swēġ fore hleahtor wera, mǣw singende fore medodrince.

     Sometimes I made the swan song as a mirth to myself, the gannet’s speech and the hwilp’s noise instead of laugher of men, the singing seagull instead of a mead-drink.

Strong a-stem:

• gamenian
• gamenlīċ
• gamenwāþu
• gamenwudu

• gamenlīċe
• gamenung

• Middle English: gamen, gemen (Kent), gammen, gamin, gamyn (Northern), gammyn, gammyne (Early Scots), gammon, gamon, gomen, gomin, gomun, gomyn (West Midland)
  • English: gammon (dialectal)
  • Middle Scots: gamyn, gammyn
• ⇒ Middle English: game, gam, gamme, geme (Kent), gaume, gome (West Midland)
  • English: game (see there for further descendants); (dialectal gam)
  • Middle Scots: gam, game, gemme
    • Scots: gemm
  • Yola: gaame, gaume, gaaume

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “gamen”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

gamen

1. definite singular of gam
2. definite plural of game

• Mange, magen