Pennsylvania Dutch Dictionary: um

um ˘ preposition
1. for the purpose of
2. in order to
3. about
4. around
5. at
6. out of
7. ~ der Weg, present
  Example
  1. Un er will eich weise graad wie 's geduh waar, oh, verleicht zwee hunnert Yaahre zerick, eb die Sigaer-Faeckdris do um der Weg waare. And he intends to show you exactly how it was done, oh, perhaps two hundred years ago, before the cigar factories were present here.
8. ee...~ der anner, one...after the other
  Example
  1. Hett ihr schunn gewatscht wann 's aafangt zu schnee-e, un yuscht hie un do en Flocke fallt, un 's iss net genunk fer der Boddem weiss mache? Ich wunner was selli erschde Flocke denke? Es halt awwer aa runnerkumme, ee Flocke ~ der anner, un glei kann mer schunn en Katz schpure! Have you already ever watched when it begins to snow and just here and there a flake falls, and it's not enough to make the ground white? I wonder what those first flake are thinking? But then it continues to come down, one flake after the other, and real soon you can track a cat!
9. so ~, about
  Example
  1. so ~ die Viere, about four o'clock
10. der Baam iss ~, the tree is down
11. ich geb nix ~ die Aerwet, I don't mind work
12. ich geb nix ~ die Aerwet, I don't care for work
13. ~ sei Geld kumme, to lose one's money
Etymology: G um