mma

See also: MMA and -mma

Bu

Noun

mma

1. water

References

• Roger Blench, The Ningye language of Central Nigeria and its affinities (2011), page 8 (in notes)

Northern Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *mààmá.

Noun

mma

1. mother
2. madam, Mrs

Nupe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ŋ̄.mã̀/

Noun

m̄mà (plural m̄màzhì)

1. maternal uncle (mother's brother)

Coordinate terms

• ǹdági (“paternal uncle”)

Phuthi

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *mààmá.

Noun

mmá class 1a (plural bómmá class 2a)

1. mother

Inflection

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Tswana

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *mààmá.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈm̀.má/

Noun

mma class 1a (plural bomma)

1. mother
2. madam, Mrs

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms

• nma (Caura River dialect)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mma]

Noun

mma (possessed mmai)

1. (Cunucunuma River dialect and Brazil) house

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “nma”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon, page 112
• Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “mma”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “mma:”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 290
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “mmā”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021