Ngizim edit

Etymology edit

Cognate with Mwaghavul àm, Gerka ram, Miship əm.

Noun edit

âm

  1. water

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

Etymology 1 edit

Sino-Vietnamese word from (sound).

Noun edit

âm

  1. sound
  2. (phonetics, colloquial) Clipping of âm tố or clipping of ngữ âm (phone).
  3. (phonology, colloquial) Clipping of âm tố or clipping of âm vị (phoneme).
  4. (linguistics, colloquial) Clipping of âm tiết (syllable).
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Etymology 2 edit

Sino-Vietnamese word from .

Noun edit

âm

  1. (occult) yin

Adjective edit

âm

  1. (occult) having "yin" characteristics, as in "dark", "lunar" or "feminine"
    ngày âm
    a lunar day
  2. (mathematics, physics) negative
    điện âm
    negative charges

Prefix edit

âm

  1. minus; negative
    Synonym: trừ
    -10° (âm 10 độ)
    -10° (minus/negative 10 degrees [Celsius])
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