Tame

See also: tame and tamë

English

Etymology

English surname, from the adjective Middle English tame as a nickname, and in some cases a habitational surname from Thame in Oxfordshire.

Proper noun

Tame

1. A surname transferred from the nickname.
2. A river in the West Midlands, Warwickshire and Staffordshire, England, a tributary to the Trent.
3. A river in Greater Manchester, England, which joins the River Goyt at Stockport, then becoming the River Mersey.

Derived terms

• Tameside

Anagrams

• AEMT, ATEM, Atem, META, Meta, Team, Tema, mate, maté, meat, meta, meta-, team

Maori

Proper noun

Tame

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Tom

Related terms

• Tāmati

References

• [1] Te Aka Māori-English, English-Māori Dictionary and Index
• [2] Fletcher Index of Maori Names
• [3] Ancestry.com: Exact search for the given name "Tame" in documents relating to New Zealand. Accessed on 25 February 2016