Meaning

verb correct by punishment or discipline

verb make less strong or intense; soften

verb adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment

originFrom Middle English tame, tome, weak inflection forms of Middle English tam, tom, from Old English tam, tom (“domesticated, tame”), from Proto-West Germanic *tam (“tame”), from Proto-Germanic *tamaz (“brought into the home, tame”), from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂- (“to tame, dominate”). Cognate with Scots tam, tame (“tame”), Saterland Frisian tom (“tame”), West Frisian tam (“tame”), Dutch tam…

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0