ammo
English edit
Etymology edit
Clipping of ammunition + -o.
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈæ.moʊ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -æməʊ
Noun edit
ammo (usually uncountable, plural ammos)
- (informal) Ammunition.
- 1917, Arthur Guy Empey, “Lewis Gun”, in Over the Top, G. P. Putnam's, page 297:
- Under fire when this magazine is emptied you shout for “ammo” but perhaps No. 2, the ammo carrier, is lying in the rear with a bullet through his napper. Then it's “napoo-fini” (Tommy's French) for Mr. Lewis.
- 2011, Mark Brannon, Tom Hanrahan, Shooting Sporting Clays, page 39:
- As with handguns and rifles, some ammos are more accurate than others.
Derived terms edit
Verb edit
ammo (third-person singular simple present ammos, present participle ammoing, simple past and past participle ammoed)
- (transitive, informal) To load up on ammunition.
- Synonym: ammo up
- 2001, H. Beam Piper, Uller Uprising:
- "Harry and Hassan are getting the car re-ammoed; they dropped me off here.
Further reading edit
- Jonathon Green (2024), “ammo n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Anagrams edit
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Finnic *ammo, from Proto-Uralic *aŋmɜ-. Cognate to Ingrian ammillaa, Votic ammulla, Estonian ammuli, Estonian ammu, Livonian amtlõ (“to yawn”), Skolt Sami ämmsõddâd (“to yawn”), Western Mari [script needed] (omeštaš, “to talk or move while in sleep or to talk unclearly”), Southern Selkup [script needed] (āmmu-, “yawnable, something that makes one to yawn”) (Ket), Kamassian [script needed] (a’moi-, “yawnable, something that makes one to yawn”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
- something that widens on a mouth section, like a mouth or a cavity
Declension edit
Inflection of ammo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | ammo | ammot | ||
genitive | ammon | ammojen | ||
partitive | ammoa | ammoja | ||
illative | ammoon | ammoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | ammo | ammot | ||
accusative | nom. | ammo | ammot | |
gen. | ammon | |||
genitive | ammon | ammojen | ||
partitive | ammoa | ammoja | ||
inessive | ammossa | ammoissa | ||
elative | ammosta | ammoista | ||
illative | ammoon | ammoihin | ||
adessive | ammolla | ammoilla | ||
ablative | ammolta | ammoilta | ||
allative | ammolle | ammoille | ||
essive | ammona | ammoina | ||
translative | ammoksi | ammoiksi | ||
abessive | ammotta | ammoitta | ||
instructive | — | ammoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms edit
References edit
- Junttila, Santeri; Kallio, Petri; Holopainen, Sampsa; Kuokkala, Juha; Pystynen, Juho, editors (2020–), “ammo”, in Suomen vanhimman sanaston etymologinen verkkosanakirja[1] (in Finnish), retrieved 2024-01-01
- “ammuli”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (online version, in Estonian), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
- Itkonen, Erkki; Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000) Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words][2] (in Finnish), [note: linked online version also includes some other etymological sources], Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN
- Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages[3], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
Uzbek edit
Etymology edit
From Arabic أَمَّا (ʔammā, “as for”).
Conjunction edit
ammo