mä

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ma"

Chipaya

Noun

mä

1. mother

References

• Sabine Dedenbach-Salazar Sáenz, Katja Hannß, Chipaya case markers -kiś and -kin: Subject and speaker reference (2008)

Finnish

Etymology

Dialectal variant of minä that has developed through contraction; see it and its etymon, Proto-Finnic *minä, for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmæ/, [ˈmæ]
• Rhymes: -æ
• Syllabification^(key): mä

Pronoun

mä (colloquial)

1. (personal) I (first person singular personal pronoun)

Declension

• Irregular: the comitative, instructive and abessive cases, in practice highly rare for personal pronouns anyway, are not used.
• In addition to the standard set of cases, mä as well as minä and other personal pronouns have a specific accusative form, mut.

Declension of mä noun case singular plural nominative mä – genitive mun – partitive mua – accusative mut – inessive mussa – elative musta – illative muhun – adessive mulla – ablative multa – allative mulle – essive muna – translative muksi / muks – abessive – – instructive – – comitative – –

Synonyms

• minä (standard Finnish; see it for a full list)

Further reading

• “mä”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Anagrams

• äm

Luxembourgish

Alternative forms

• ma, mee

Etymology

From French mais (“but”), from Old French mais, from Latin magis. Perhaps merged with a descendant of Middle High German niwære (“but, only”). Rests of such forms (mär, mar, mor) are attested in several dialects not far to the east and north of Luxembourg. It is plausible that this inherited word, which may already have become dated, was absorbed by the French borrowing. Compare Dutch maar and Luxembourgish nëmmen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mæ/, [mɛː]

Conjunction

mä

1. but

Synonyms

• awer

Swedish

Alternative forms

• mäh
• Any number of ä letters can be added to show the length of the bleat.

Etymology

Imitative.

Interjection

mä

1. maa (bleating of a sheep or goat)

   Synonym: bä

See also

• bräka

References

• mä in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)