âm
See also: Appendix:Variations of "am"
Ngizim edit
Etymology edit
Cognate with Mwaghavul àm, Gerka ram, Miship əm.
Noun edit
âm
References edit
- Takács, Gábor (2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 201, →ISBN:
- […] we should carefully distinguish the following Ch. roots from AA *m-ˀ "water" [GT]:
- (1) Ch. *h-m "water" [GT]: […] Ngz. am […]
- Etudes berbères et chamito-sémitiques: mélanges offerts à Karl-G. Prasse (2000, →ISBN, page 38
- Václav Blažek, A Lexicostatistical comparison of Omotic languages, in In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory: Essays in the four fields of anthropology, page 122
Vietnamese edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔəm˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔəm˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ʔəm˧˧]
Audio (Hà Nội) (file)
Etymology 1 edit
Sino-Vietnamese word from 音 (“sound”).
Noun edit
âm
- sound
- (phonetics, colloquial) Clipping of âm tố or clipping of ngữ âm (“phone”).
- (phonology, colloquial) Clipping of âm tố or clipping of âm vị (“phoneme”).
- (linguistics, colloquial) Clipping of âm tiết (“syllable”).
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Etymology 2 edit
Sino-Vietnamese word from 陰.
Noun edit
âm
Adjective edit
âm
- (occult) having "yin" characteristics, as in "dark", "lunar" or "feminine"
- ngày âm
- a lunar day
- (mathematics, physics) negative
- điện âm
- negative charges
Prefix edit
âm
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