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am

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TranslingualEdit

SymbolEdit

am

  1. (metrology) Symbol for the attometer (attometre), an SI unit of length equal to 10−18 meters (metres).

EnglishEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

From Middle English am, em, from Old English eam, eom (“am”), from Proto-Germanic *immi, *izmi (“am”, form of the verb *wesaną (“to be; dwell”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésmi (“I am, I exist”). Cognate with Old Norse em, emi (“am”), Gothic 𐌹𐌼 (im, “am”), Latin sum (“am”), Ancient Greek εἰμί (eimí), Albanian jam (“I am”), Sanskrit अस्मि (ásmi), Latvian esmu (“(I) am”), esam (“we are”).

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

am

  1. first-person singular present indicative of be

See alsoEdit

forms of be

AdverbEdit

am (not comparable)

  1. Alternative spelling of a.m.

AnagramsEdit

AromanianEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

The verb as a whole derives from forms of the Latin habeō, habēre. The first-person present singular form am(u), along with some other inflected forms, may have been analogical constructions (in this case, from an old form (aemu) of first-person plural (now avem)), or influenced by nearby languages. Compare Romanian avea, am; cf. also Albanian kam (“I have”). The third-person singular present indicative, ari, may have derived from Latin haberet.

VerbEdit

am (third-person singular present indicative ari/are, imperfect aveam, simple perfect avui, past participle avutã)

  1. I have.
  2. I own.
  3. (auxiliary, with past participles) I have...

Related termsEdit

AzerbaijaniEdit

Other scripts
Cyrillic ам
Roman am
Perso-Arabic آم‎

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Turkic *(i)am (“vulva”). Related to amcıq with the same sense and derived from the same root.

NounEdit

am (definite accusative amı, plural amlar)

  1. (vulgar) cunt

DeclensionEdit

Declension of am
singular plural
nominative am amlar
definite accusative amı amları
dative ama amlara
locative amda amlarda
ablative amdan amlardan
definite genitive amın amların
Possessive forms of am
nominative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) amım amlarım
sənin (“your”) amın amların
onun (“his/her/its”) amı amları
bizim (“our”) amımız amlarımız
sizin (“your”) amınız amlarınız
onların (“their”) amı or amları amları
accusative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) amımı amlarımı
sənin (“your”) amını amlarını
onun (“his/her/its”) amını amlarını
bizim (“our”) amımızı amlarımızı
sizin (“your”) amınızı amlarınızı
onların (“their”) amını or amlarını amlarını
dative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) amıma amlarıma
sənin (“your”) amına amlarına
onun (“his/her/its”) amına amlarına
bizim (“our”) amımıza amlarımıza
sizin (“your”) amınıza amlarınıza
onların (“their”) amına or amlarına amlarına
locative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) amımda amlarımda
sənin (“your”) amında amlarında
onun (“his/her/its”) amında amlarında
bizim (“our”) amımızda amlarımızda
sizin (“your”) amınızda amlarınızda
onların (“their”) amında or amlarında amlarında
ablative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) amımdan amlarımdan
sənin (“your”) amından amlarından
onun (“his/her/its”) amından amlarından
bizim (“our”) amımızdan amlarımızdan
sizin (“your”) amınızdan amlarınızdan
onların (“their”) amından or amlarından amlarından
genitive
singular plural
mənim (“my”) amımın amlarımın
sənin (“your”) amının amlarının
onun (“his/her/its”) amının amlarının
bizim (“our”) amımızın amlarımızın
sizin (“your”) amınızın amlarınızın
onların (“their”) amının or amlarının amlarının

ChuukeseEdit

PronounEdit

am

  1. First-person plural exclusive pronoun; us (exclusive)

See alsoEdit

Chuukese personal pronouns
singular plural
1st person ngaang, nganga, ngang áám, am (exclusive)
kiich, kich (inclusive)
2nd person een, en áámi, ami
3rd person iiy, i iir, ir

FulaEdit

EtymologyEdit

(This etymology is missing. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Alternative formsEdit

DeterminerEdit

am (singular)

  1. (possessive) my.
    suudu am
    my house

Usage notesEdit

GermanEdit

PronunciationEdit

ContractionEdit

am (+ adjective ending with -en + masculine or neuter noun)

  1. an + dem, at the, on the
    am Ende ― at the end
    am Rande ― on the margin(s)
    am Leben ― alive
  2. auf + dem, on the, at the
    am Berg ― on the mountain
    am Fest ― at the festival
    am Schirm ― on the screen
  3. Forms the superlative in adverbial and predicate use.
    am schnellsten ― fastest
    am schwächsten ― weakest
    am wichtigsten ― most important
    Er spielt am besten.
    He plays best.

IndonesianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Malay am, from Arabic عَامّ‎ (ʿāmm).

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈam/
  • Hyphenation: am

AdjectiveEdit

am

  1. common, general.
    Synonyms: umum, awam
  2. common (not expert).

Derived termsEdit

Further readingEdit

IrishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Old Irish amm (“point of time”).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

am m (genitive singular ama, nominative plural amanna or amanta)

  1. time
    1. measured time
    2. point of time, occasion
    3. usual, set, time
    4. due, proper, time
    5. scheduled time
    6. opportune, inopportune, time
    7. available time
    8. season
    9. portion of time, period
    10. time of life
    11. span of life
    12. time of gestation
    13. time of death
    14. person's experience at particular time.
    15. (general, adverbial, usages, an t-am) when
DeclensionEdit
Declension of am

Third declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative am amanna
Vocative a am a amanna
Genitive ama amanna
Dative am amanna

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an t-am na hamanna
Genitive an ama na n-amanna
Dative leis an am

don am

leis na hamanna
Alternative declension
Declension of am

Third declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative am amanta
Vocative a am a amanta
Genitive ama amanta
Dative am amanta

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an t-am na hamanta
Genitive an ama na n-amanta
Dative leis an am

don am

leis na hamanta
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

Alternative formsEdit

PronunciationEdit

ContractionEdit

am (triggers lenition)

  1. (colloquial, dialectal) Contraction of do mo (“to/for my”).

Etymology 3Edit

Alternative formsEdit

PronunciationEdit

ContractionEdit

am (triggers lenition)

  1. (colloquial, dialectal) Contraction of i mo (“in my”).

MutationEdit

Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
am n-am ham t-am
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further readingEdit

KofyarEdit

EtymologyEdit

Related to Gerka ram (“water”).

NounEdit

am

  1. water

ReferencesEdit

  • Takács, Gábor (2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 201:
    […] we should carefully distinguish the following Ch. roots from AA *m-ˀ "water" [GT]:
    (1) Ch. *h-m "water" [GT]: WCh. *hama [Stl.]: AS *ham (Gmy. *hām) [GT 2004, 153] = *am [Stl. 1977] = *ham [Dlg.] = *ham [Stl. 1987]: […] Kfy. am [Ntg. 1967, 1], […]

LagwanEdit

EtymologyEdit

Ultimately from Proto-Chadic *ymn.

NounEdit

am

  1. water

ReferencesEdit

  • Takács, Gábor (2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 201:
    […] we should carefully distinguish the following Ch. roots from AA *m-ˀ "water" [GT]:
    (1) Ch. *h-m "water" [GT]: WCh. *hama [Stl.]: AS *ham (Gmy. *hām) [GT 2004, 153] = *am [Stl. 1977] = *ham [Dlg.] = *ham [Stl. 1987]: […] Lgn. a̲m [Mch.] = àm (pl.) [Lks.] = ˀàm [Bouny] = ˀàm [Bouny 1975 MS, 5, #58], Bdm. amaii "water", amai "rain" [Talbot 1911, 252] […]

LuxembourgishEdit

ContractionEdit

am

  1. contraction of an + dem; in the

MalalíEdit

NounEdit

am

  1. earth

ReferencesEdit

  • Robert Gordon Latham, Elements of Comparative Philology
  • Martius, Beiträge zur Ethnographie und Sprachenkunde Brasiliens

Middle EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Old English eam, eom, first-person singular of wesan, from Proto-Germanic *immi, first-person singular of *wesaną.

Alternative formsEdit

VerbEdit

am

  1. First-person singular present indicative form of been
Usage notesEdit
  • More common than be as a first-person singular form.
DescendantsEdit
  • English: am
  • Scots: am

Etymology 2Edit

From Old English heom.

PronounEdit

am

  1. Alternative form of hem
ReferencesEdit

Middle WelshEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Celtic *ambi (compare Old Irish imb), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi. Cognate with Latin ambi-, Sanskrit अभि (abhí, “towards, over, upon”), Old Persian 𐎠𐎲𐎡𐎹 (abiy, “towards, against, upon”), Old High German umbi, Ancient Greek ἀμφί (amphí, “about, around”) and the first part of Old Armenian ամբ-ողջ (amb-ołǰ, “whole”).

PronunciationEdit

PrepositionEdit

am (triggers lenition)

  1. about
  2. for, on account of
  3. concerning, as regards

InflectionEdit

Derived termsEdit

MwaghavulEdit

EtymologyEdit

Related to Gerka ram (“water”).

NounEdit

àm

  1. water

ReferencesEdit

  • Zygmunt Frajzyngier, A Grammar of Mupun (1993)
  • 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
  • Takács, Gábor (2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 201:
    […] we should carefully distinguish the following Ch. roots from AA *m-ˀ "water" [GT]:
    (1) Ch. *h-m "water" [GT]: WCh. *hama [Stl.]: AS *ham (Gmy. *hām) [GT 2004, 153] = *am [Stl. 1977] = *ham [Dlg.] = *ham [Stl. 1987]: […] Sura àm "Wasser, Flüssigkeit" [Jng. 1963, 58], Mpn. àm [Frj. 1991, 3], […]

NgasEdit

EtymologyEdit

Related to Gerka ram (“water”).

NounEdit

am

  1. water
  2. rain

ReferencesEdit

  • Takács, Gábor (2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 201:
    […] we should carefully distinguish the following Ch. roots from AA *m-ˀ "water" [GT]:
    (1) Ch. *h-m "water" [GT]: WCh. *hama [Stl.]: AS *ham (Gmy. *hām) [GT 2004, 153] = *am [Stl. 1977] = *ham [Dlg.] = *ham [Stl. 1987]: […] Angas am "1. water, 2. rain" [Ormsby 1914, 314-315] = am "water (to drink of wash with)" [Flk. 1915, 143] = […]

Nigerian PidginEdit

PronounEdit

am

  1. him/her/it
    • 1960, Chinua Achebe, No Longer at Ease, page 85:
      Where you pick am?

Norwegian BokmålEdit

VerbEdit

am

  1. imperative of amme

Old EnglishEdit

VerbEdit

am

  1. (Northumbria) first-person singular present indicative of wesan

ReferencesEdit

  1. 17, Skeat, Walter Wiliams 'The Gospel according to Saint Luke: in Anglo-Saxon and Northumbrian versions synoptically'

Old IrishEdit

PeroEdit

NounEdit

ám

  1. water

ReferencesEdit

  • Zygmunt Frajzyngier, A grammar of Pero (1989)

PumpokolEdit

NounEdit

am

  1. mother

RomanianEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Inflected form of avea. Probably an analogical construction based on the old first-person plural or perhaps influenced by similar forms in other languages[1]. Compare Aromanian am(u); cf. also Albanian kam (“I have”).

VerbEdit

am

  1. first-person singular present indicative of avea
    (I) have
  2. first-person singular present subjunctive of avea

Etymology 2Edit

From old Romanian amu, presumably from an earlier (proto-) Romanian form aemu (attested in Aromanian), from Latin habēmus. The original first-person singular in proto-Romanian was aibu, from Latin habeō, but was changed to am(u) by analogy with the first-person plural. The form with -v- (avem) in the present form of the verb's main conjugation (as opposed to its use in this form as an auxiliary verb) may have been remade by analogy with avut[2]; am may also be seen as a reduced, clitic form of avem[3]. See also ați, which has a parallel development.

VerbEdit

am

  1. (eu) am (modal auxiliary, first-person singular form of avea, used with past participles to form perfect compus tenses)
    (I) have...
    Eu am câștigat meciul.
    I have won the match.
  2. (noi) am (modal auxiliary, first-person plural form of avea, used with past participles to form perfect compus tenses)
    (we) have...
    Noi am fost la biserică duminică.
    We have been to church on Sunday.
Related termsEdit

Etymology 3Edit

Presumably from a Vulgar Latin *eamus, from Latin habēbāmus.

VerbEdit

am

  1. (noi) am (modal auxiliary, first-person plural form of avea, used with infinitives to form conditional tenses)
    (we) would
Related termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ http://dexonline.ro:8080/articol/Despre_leg%C4%83turile_rom%C3%A2nei_cu_albaneza
  2. ^ http://www.lingv.ro/RRL%201-2%202009%20Nevaci,%20Todi.pdf
  3. ^ https://books.google.com/books?id=MFWOYUHULgsC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Scottish GaelicEdit

PronounEdit

am

  1. their

Usage notesEdit

  • This form is used before nouns beginning with b, f, m or p.

ArticleEdit

am

  1. the

Usage notesEdit

  • This form is used in the singular nominative before masculine nouns beginning with b, f, m or p.

See alsoEdit

SpanishEdit

AdverbEdit

am

  1. a.m. (before noon)

AntonymsEdit

TagalogEdit

NounEdit

am

  1. Alternative form of aam

TangaleEdit

NounEdit

am

  1. water

ReferencesEdit

  • Takács, Gábor (2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 201:
    […] we should carefully distinguish the following Ch. roots from AA *m-ˀ "water" [GT]:
    (1) Ch. *h-m "water" [GT]: WCh. *hama [Stl.]: AS *ham (Gmy. *hām) [GT 2004, 153] = *am [Stl. 1977] = *ham [Dlg.] = *ham [Stl. 1987]: […] Tng. am [Jng.], […]
  • Václav Blažek, A Lexicostatitical comparison of Omotic languages, in In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory: Essays in the four fields of anthropology, page 122

TurkishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Turkic *(i)am (“vulva”).

NounEdit

am (definite accusative amı, plural amlar)

  1. (vulgar) cunt (genitalia)

DeclensionEdit

Inflection
Nominative am
Definite accusative amı
Singular Plural
Nominative am amlar
Definite accusative amı amları
Dative ama amlara
Locative amda amlarda
Ablative amdan amlardan
Genitive amın amların
Possessive forms
Singular Plural
1st singular amım amlarım
2nd singular amın amların
3rd singular amı amları
1st plural amımız amlarımız
2nd plural amınız amlarınız
3rd plural amları amları

See alsoEdit

VietnameseEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

(classifier cái) am

  1. small Buddhist temple, small pagoda, hermitage, secluded hut, cottage

War-JaintiaEdit

NounEdit

am

  1. water

ReferencesEdit

WelshEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle Welsh am, from Proto-Celtic *ambi (compare Old Irish imb), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi. Cognate with Latin ambi-, Sanskrit अभि (abhí, “towards, over, upon”), Old Persian 𐎠𐎲𐎡𐎹 (abiy, “towards, against, upon”), Old High German umbi, Ancient Greek ἀμφί (amphí, “about, around”) and the first part of Old Armenian ամբ-ողջ (amb-ołǰ, “whole”).

PronunciationEdit

PrepositionEdit

am (triggers soft mutation)

  1. for, in exchange for
  2. (time) at
  3. (with siarad, sôn, or meddwl) about, concerning

InflectionEdit

Personal forms
Singular Plural
First person amdana i amdanon ni
Second person amdanat ti amdanoch chi
Third person amdano fe/fo m
amdani hi f 		amdanyn nhw

Derived termsEdit

Yucatec MayaEdit

NounEdit

am (plural amoʼob)

  1. spider, arachnid
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