ym
Translingual edit
Symbol edit
ym
- (metrology) Symbol for yoctometer (yoctometre), an SI unit of length equal to 10−24 meters (metres).
Egyptian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Northwest Semitic. Compare Hebrew יָם (yām) and cognates listed therein.
Pronunciation edit
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /iːm/
- Conventional anglicization: ym
Noun edit
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m
Usage notes edit
Most commonly used in reference to the Mediterranean Sea, but also applied to Lake Moeris and other smaller bodies of water.
The glyph
does double duty in some writings of this word, serving simultaneously as a determinative and as a phonetic mw.
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Inflection edit
Alternative forms edit
Descendants edit
- Demotic: ym
References edit
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 78.11
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 18
- Hoch, James E. (1994) Semitic Words in Egyptian Texts of the New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period, Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, pages 52–53
Icelandic edit
Verb edit
ym (weak)
Middle English edit
Pronoun edit
ym
- Alternative form of him (“him”)
Welsh edit
Preposition edit
ym
- Form of yn used before m.
- ym Mangor
- in Bangor
- ym Mhontypridd
- in Pontypridd
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