äm

See also: aem, æm, and Appendix:Variations of "am"

Chuukese

Determiner

äm

  1. First-person plural exclusive general possessive; our (exclusive)
Chuukese possessive determiners
small objects, concepts large objects, living things suffix
singular first person ai nei -ei
second person omw, om noum -om
third person an noun -an
plural first person äm (exclusive)
ach (inclusive)
nöu̇m (exclusive)
nöüch (inclusive)
-em (exclusive)
-ach (inclusive)
second person ämi, ami noumi -emi
third person ar nour -er

Finnish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin em. See äs for further details on the vowel.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈæm/, [ˈæm]
  • Rhymes: -æm
  • Syllabification(key): äm
  • Hyphenation(key): äm

Noun

äm

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter M/m.

Declension

Anagrams

Livonian

Etymology

Compare Estonian amm. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈæm/, [ˈæm]

Noun

äm

  1. wet nurse
    • Tiit-Rein Viitso; Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), “äm”, in Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary]‎[1] (in Estonian and Latvian), Tartu, Rīga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra
      mȯiznikād läpši imtiz äm
      manor owners' children were breastfed by a wet nurse

Declension

Declension of äm (99)
singular (ikšlu’g) plural (pǟgiņlu’g)
nominative (nominatīv) äm ǟmõd
genitive (genitīv) äm ǟmõd
partitive (partitīv) ämmõ ǟmidi
dative (datīv) ämmõn ǟmõdõn
instrumental (instrumentāl) ämmõks ǟmõdõks
illative (illatīv) ämmõ ǟmiž
inessive (inesīv) ämsõ ǟmis
elative (elatīv) ämstõ ǟmist

See also

References

  • Tiit-Rein Viitso; Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), “äm”, in Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary]‎[2] (in Estonian and Latvian), Tartu, Rīga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish æm, from Old Norse em, from Proto-Norse *ᛖᛗ (*em), from Proto-Germanic *immi, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésmi. Cognate with English am.

Verb

äm

  1. (obsolete) first-person singular indicative present of vara

See also