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amang

Cebuano edit

Noun edit

amang

  1. a person who cannot speak

Adjective edit

amang

  1. mute

Malay edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *amaŋ amaŋ (“dare to do something”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

amang (plural amang-amang, informal 1st possessive amangku, 2nd possessive amangmu, 3rd possessive amangnya)

  1. (archaic) defiance

Further reading edit

  • Wilkinson, Richard James. An Abridged Malay-English Dictionary. Macmillan. 1965.

Old English edit

Etymology edit

Abbreviation of onġemang

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑ.mɑnɡ/, [ˈɑ.mɑŋɡ]

Preposition edit

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amang

  1. among

Descendants edit

Scots edit

Etymology edit

From Middle English among, from Old English onġemang.

Preposition edit

amang

  1. among

Sundanese edit

Noun edit

amang

  1. uncle (brother (or brother-in-law) of someone’s parent)

Yola edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Middle English amang, mang, from Old English onġemang.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /əˈmɔːn/, (aphetic) /mɔːn/

Preposition edit

amang

  1. among
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 56:
      Blessed yarth amang meyen.
      Blessed art thou amongst women.
    • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 93:
      Aar was pizzeen, an beanès, an barich amang.
      There were pease and beans, and barley-mung.
    • 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 100:
      Amang wefty jhemes, 'cha jeist ee-rid apan.
      Among cobwebby scraps, I have just alighted on.

References edit

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 22
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