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äm

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Chuukese

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Determiner

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äm

  1. First-person plural exclusive general possessive; our (exclusive)
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Chuukese possessive determiners
small objects, concepts large objects, living things suffix
singular first person ai nei -ei
second person omw, om noum -om
third person an noun -an
plural first person äm (exclusive)
ach (inclusive)
nöu̇m (exclusive)
nöüch (inclusive)
-em (exclusive)
-ach (inclusive)
second person ämi, ami noumi -emi
third person ar nour -er

Finnish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Latin em. See äs for further details on the vowel.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈæm/, [ˈæm]
  • Rhymes: -æm
  • Syllabification(key): äm
  • Hyphenation(key): äm

Noun

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äm

  1. The name of the Latin script letter M/m.

Declension

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Anagrams

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Livonian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Middle Low German amme. Compare Estonian amm.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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äm

  1. wet nurse
    • 2012–2013, “äm”, in Tiit-Rein Viitso, Valts Ernštreits, editors, Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary]‎[1], Tartu, Riga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra:
      mȯiznikād läpši imtiz äm
      manor owners' children were breastfed by a wet nurse

Declension

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Declension of äm (99)
singular (ikšlu’g) plural (pǟgiņlu’g)
nominative (nominatīv) äm ǟmõd
genitive (genitīv) äm ǟmõd
partitive (partitīv) ämmõ ǟmidi
dative (datīv) ämmõn ǟmõdõn
instrumental (instrumentāl) ämmõks ǟmõdõks
illative (illatīv) ämmõ ǟmiž
inessive (inesīv) ämsõ ǟmis
elative (elatīv) ämstõ ǟmist

See also

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References

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  • Tiit-Rein Viitso; Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), “äm”, in Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary]‎[2] (in Estonian and Latvian), Tartu, Rīga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra

Swedish

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Etymology

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From Old Swedish æm, from Old Norse em, from Proto-Norse *ᛖᛗ (*em), from Proto-Germanic *immi, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésmi. Cognate with English am.

Verb

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äm

  1. (obsolete) first-person singular indicative present of vara

See also

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