am

am

1. (metrology) Symbol for attometer (attometre), an SI unit of length equal to 10⁻¹⁸ meters (metres).
2. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Amharic.

From Middle English am, em, from Old English eam, eom (“am”), from Proto-West Germanic *im, from Proto-Germanic *immi, *izmi (“am”, form of the verb *wesaną (“to be; dwell”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésmi (“I am, I exist”).

Cognate with Old Norse em (Old Swedish æm (“am”)), Gothic 𐌹𐌼 (im, “am”), Ancient Greek εἰμῐ́ (eimí, “am”), Old Armenian եմ (em, “am”), Albanian jam (“am”).

• (stressed form) IPA^(key): /æm/
  • (æ-tensing) IPA^(key): [ẽə̯̃m], [ɛ̃ə̯̃m]

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  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [am], [æm]
  • (New Zealand) IPA^(key): [æ̝m], [ɛm], [e̞m]
• (unstressed form) IPA^(key): /əm/
• Rhymes: -æm

am

1. first-person singular present indicative of be
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 1:23:

     He ſaid, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderneſſe: Make ſtraight the way of the Loꝛd, as ſaid the Pꝛophet Eſaias.

   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     Marsha, I am in the kitchen!

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am

1. (informal or dialectal) Contraction of I am.

am (not comparable)

1. Alternative spelling of a.m.
   • 2017, Huei-Ru Hsieh et al., “Lessons Learned from the 0801 Petrochemical Pipeline Explosions in Kaohsiung City”, in Fire Science and Technology 2015: The Proceedings of 10th Asia-Oceania Symposium on Fire Science and Technology‎^[2], →DOI, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 183:

     On 1 August 2014 at approximately 12 am, in Lingya and Chienchen Districts of Kaohsiung City, a series of explosions from underground pipelines and sewer system occurred.

• -ma-, M&A, M.A., MA, Ma, ma

• amu

The verb as a whole derives from forms of the Latin habeō, habēre. The first-person present singular form am(u), along with some other inflected forms, may have been analogical constructions (in this case, from an old form (aemu) of first-person plural (now avem)), or influenced by nearby languages. Compare Romanian avea, am; cf. also Albanian kam (“to have”). The third-person singular present indicative, ari, may have derived from Latin haberet.

am first-singular present indicative (third-person singular present indicative ari or are, imperfect aveam, simple perfect avui, past participle avutã)

1. to have
2. to own
3. (auxiliary, with past participles) to have ...

• aveari / aveare
• avut
• avutsãscu

Other scripts

Cyrillic		ам
Abjad		آم

From Proto-Turkic *(i)am (“vulva”). Related to amcıq with the same sense and derived from the same root.

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am (definite accusative amı, plural amlar)

1. (vulgar) cunt

   Synonyms: amcıq, dıllaq, dındıq

Declension of am
	singular	plural
nominative	am	amlar
definite accusative	amı	amları
dative	ama	amlara
locative	amda	amlarda
ablative	amdan	amlardan
definite genitive	amın	amların

Possessive forms of am
	nominative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	amım	amlarım
sənin (“your”)	amın	amların
onun (“his/her/its”)	amı	amları
bizim (“our”)	amımız	amlarımız
sizin (“your”)	amınız	amlarınız
onların (“their”)	amı or amları	amları
	accusative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	amımı	amlarımı
sənin (“your”)	amını	amlarını
onun (“his/her/its”)	amını	amlarını
bizim (“our”)	amımızı	amlarımızı
sizin (“your”)	amınızı	amlarınızı
onların (“their”)	amını or amlarını	amlarını
	dative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	amıma	amlarıma
sənin (“your”)	amına	amlarına
onun (“his/her/its”)	amına	amlarına
bizim (“our”)	amımıza	amlarımıza
sizin (“your”)	amınıza	amlarınıza
onların (“their”)	amına or amlarına	amlarına
	locative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	amımda	amlarımda
sənin (“your”)	amında	amlarında
onun (“his/her/its”)	amında	amlarında
bizim (“our”)	amımızda	amlarımızda
sizin (“your”)	amınızda	amlarınızda
onların (“their”)	amında or amlarında	amlarında
	ablative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	amımdan	amlarımdan
sənin (“your”)	amından	amlarından
onun (“his/her/its”)	amından	amlarından
bizim (“our”)	amımızdan	amlarımızdan
sizin (“your”)	amınızdan	amlarınızdan
onların (“their”)	amından or amlarından	amlarından
	genitive
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	amımın	amlarımın
sənin (“your”)	amının	amlarının
onun (“his/her/its”)	amının	amlarının
bizim (“our”)	amımızın	amlarımızın
sizin (“your”)	amınızın	amlarınızın
onların (“their”)	amının or amlarının	amlarının

Other scripts

Cyrillic		ам
Abjad		عام

Borrowed from Arabic عَام (ʕām).

am (definite accusative amı, plural amlar)

1. (Classical Azerbaijani) year

   Synonyms: il, sal, sənə

Declension of am
	singular	plural
nominative	am	amlar
definite accusative	amı	amları
dative	ama	amlara
locative	amda	amlarda
ablative	amdan	amlardan
definite genitive	amın	amların

Possessive forms of am
	nominative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	amım	amlarım
sənin (“your”)	amın	amların
onun (“his/her/its”)	amı	amları
bizim (“our”)	amımız	amlarımız
sizin (“your”)	amınız	amlarınız
onların (“their”)	amı or amları	amları
	accusative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	amımı	amlarımı
sənin (“your”)	amını	amlarını
onun (“his/her/its”)	amını	amlarını
bizim (“our”)	amımızı	amlarımızı
sizin (“your”)	amınızı	amlarınızı
onların (“their”)	amını or amlarını	amlarını
	dative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	amıma	amlarıma
sənin (“your”)	amına	amlarına
onun (“his/her/its”)	amına	amlarına
bizim (“our”)	amımıza	amlarımıza
sizin (“your”)	amınıza	amlarınıza
onların (“their”)	amına or amlarına	amlarına
	locative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	amımda	amlarımda
sənin (“your”)	amında	amlarında
onun (“his/her/its”)	amında	amlarında
bizim (“our”)	amımızda	amlarımızda
sizin (“your”)	amınızda	amlarınızda
onların (“their”)	amında or amlarında	amlarında
	ablative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	amımdan	amlarımdan
sənin (“your”)	amından	amlarından
onun (“his/her/its”)	amından	amlarından
bizim (“our”)	amımızdan	amlarımızdan
sizin (“your”)	amınızdan	amlarınızdan
onların (“their”)	amından or amlarından	amlarından
	genitive
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	amımın	amlarımın
sənin (“your”)	amının	amlarının
onun (“his/her/its”)	amının	amlarının
bizim (“our”)	amımızın	amlarımızın
sizin (“your”)	amınızın	amlarınızın
onların (“their”)	amının or amlarının	amlarının

• “am” in Obastan.com.

From Hokkien 飲／饮 (ám).

am

1. rice water

• Baba Malay Dictionary

am

1. First-person plural exclusive pronoun; us (exclusive)

• an

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

am (singular)

1. (possessive) my

   suudu am

   my house

• Common to all varieties of Fula (Fulfulde / Pulaar / Pular). However, an is more common in Pular.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

am

1. mat

• amipang
• ampatchi

• Burling, R. (2003) The Language of the Modhupur Mandi (Garo) Vol. II: The Lexicon‎^[3], Bangladesh: University of Michigan, page 35
• Mason, M.C. (1904) , English-Garo Dictionary, Mittal Publications, New Delhi, India
• Garo-Hindi-English Learners' Dictionary, North-Eastern Hill University Publications, Shillong

• IPA^(key): /am/

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• Rhymes: -am

am

1. (+ adjective ending with -en + masculine or neuter noun) an + dem, at the, on the

   am Ende ― at the end

   am Rande ― on the margin(s)

   am Leben ― alive

2. (+ adjective ending with -en + masculine or neuter noun) auf + dem, on the, at the

   am Berg ― on the mountain

   am Fest ― at the festival

   am Schirm ― on the screen

3. Forms the superlative in adverbial and predicate use.

   am schnellsten ― fastest

   am schwächsten ― weakest

   am wichtigsten ― most important

   Er spielt am besten.

   He plays best.

• “am” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Abbreviation.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒmuːɟ]

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am

1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of amúgy (“otherwise, anyway; by the way”).

From Malay am, from Classical Malay عام (am), from Arabic عَامّ (ʕāmm).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈam/
• Rhymes: -am, -m
• Hyphenation: am

am

1. common, general.

   Synonyms: umum, awam

2. common (not expert).

• “am” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Old Irish amm,^[1] from Proto-Celtic *ammen-, *amo-, probably ultimately from the root of aimser (“point in time”).

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /aumˠ/
• (Galway) IPA^(key): /ɑːmˠ/, /amˠ/
• (Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /amˠ/^[2]

am m (genitive singular ama, nominative plural amanna or amanta)

1. time

Alternative declension

• dom, dom'

• IPA^(key): /əmˠ/

am (triggers lenition)

1. (colloquial, dialectal) Contraction of do mo (“to/for my”).

• im, 'mo

• IPA^(key): /əmˠ/

am (triggers lenition)

1. (colloquial, dialectal) Contraction of i mo (“in my”).

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
am	n-am	ham	t-am
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “am”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “am”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 25
• “am”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

Related to Gerka ram (“water”).

am

1. water

• Takács, Gábor (2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 201, →ISBN:

  […] we should carefully distinguish the following Ch. roots from AA *m-ˀ "water" [GT]:

  (1) Ch. *h-m "water" [GT]: WCh. *hama [Stl.]: AS *ham (Gmy. *hām) [GT 2004, 153] = *am [Stl. 1977] = *ham [Dlg.] = *ham [Stl. 1987]: […] Kfy. am [Ntg. 1967, 1], […]

Ultimately from Proto-Chadic *ymn.

am

1. water

• Takács, Gábor (2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 201, →ISBN:

  […] we should carefully distinguish the following Ch. roots from AA *m-ˀ "water" [GT]:

  (1) Ch. *h-m "water" [GT]: WCh. *hama [Stl.]: AS *ham (Gmy. *hām) [GT 2004, 153] = *am [Stl. 1977] = *ham [Dlg.] = *ham [Stl. 1987]: […] Lgn. a̲m [Mch.] = àm (pl.) [Lks.] = ˀàm [Bouny] = ˀàm [Bouny 1975 MS, 5, #58], Bdm. amaii "water", amai "rain" [Talbot 1911, 252] […]

am

1. contraction of an + dem; in the

am

1. earth

• Robert Gordon Latham, Elements of Comparative Philology
• Martius, Beiträge zur Ethnographie und Sprachenkunde Brasiliens

From Latin habeo.

am

1. I have.

• veari / veri

From Old English eam, eom, from Proto-West Germanic *im, from Proto-Germanic *immi, first-person singular of *wesaną.

• ame, em

• IPA^(key): /am/, /ɛm/

am

1. first-person singular present indicative of been
   • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎^[4], published c. 1410, Joon 1:23, page 43v, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

     he ſeide / I am a vois of a crier in deſert .· dꝛeſſe ȝe þe weie of þe loꝛd. as yſaie þe pꝛophete ſeide

     He said: "I am the voice of a crier in the wilderness; straighten the way of the Lord, as the prophet Isaiah said."

• More common than be as a first-person singular form.

• English: am
• Scots: am
• Yola: aam, am

am

1. Alternative form of hem (“them”)

From Proto-Celtic *ambi (compare Old Irish imb), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi. Cognate with Latin ambi-, Sanskrit अभि (abhí, “towards, over, upon”), Old Persian 𐎠𐎲𐎡𐎹 (a-b-i-y /⁠abiy⁠/, “towards, against, upon”), Old High German umbi, Ancient Greek ἀμφί (amphí, “about, around”) and the first part of Old Armenian ամբ-ողջ (amb-ołǰ, “whole”).

• IPA^(key): /am/

am (triggers lenition)

1. about
2. for, on account of
3. concerning, as regards

• first-person singular: amdanaf
• second-person singular: amdanat
• third-person singular masculine: amdanaw, ymdanaw, ymdanw
• third-person singular feminine: amdanei

• am pen (“upon”)
• gwiscaw am (“to put on (clothes etc.)”)
• y am (“off; apart from”)

Related to Gerka ram (“water”).

àm

1. water

• Zygmunt Frajzyngier, A Grammar of Mupun (1993)
• Václav Blažek, A Lexicostatistical comparison of Omotic languages, in In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory: Essays in the four fields of anthropology, page 122
• Takács, Gábor (2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 201, →ISBN:

  […] we should carefully distinguish the following Ch. roots from AA *m-ˀ "water" [GT]:

  (1) Ch. *h-m "water" [GT]: WCh. *hama [Stl.]: AS *ham (Gmy. *hām) [GT 2004, 153] = *am [Stl. 1977] = *ham [Dlg.] = *ham [Stl. 1987]: […] Sura àm "Wasser, Flüssigkeit" [Jng. 1963, 58], Mpn. àm [Frj. 1991, 3], […]

Related to Gerka ram (“water”).

am

1. water
2. rain

• Takács, Gábor (2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 201, →ISBN:

  […] we should carefully distinguish the following Ch. roots from AA *m-ˀ "water" [GT]:

  (1) Ch. *h-m "water" [GT]: WCh. *hama [Stl.]: AS *ham (Gmy. *hām) [GT 2004, 153] = *am [Stl. 1977] = *ham [Dlg.] = *ham [Stl. 1987]: […] Angas am "1. water, 2. rain" [Ormsby 1914, 314-315] = am "water (to drink of wash with)" [Flk. 1915, 143] = […]

am

1. him/her/it
   • 1960, Chinua Achebe, No Longer at Ease, page 85:

     Where you pick am?

     Where did you pick it?

   • 2013, Yemi Alade (lyrics and music), “Johnny”, in King of Queens:

     And he talk say I no do am like the way Cynthia dey do

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

am

1. imperative of amme

am

1. imperative of amme

am

1. (Northumbrian) first-person singular present indicative of wesan

1. 17, Skeat, Walter Wiliams 'The Gospel according to Saint Luke: in Anglo-Saxon and Northumbrian versions synoptically'

From Proto-Celtic *emmi, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁esmi, from *h₁es- (“to be”).

• IPA^(key): /am/

am

1. first-person singular present indicative of is

ám

1. water

• Zygmunt Frajzyngier, A grammar of Pero (1989)

am

1. mother

• IPA^(key): /am/
• Rhymes: -am

Inflected form of avea. Probably an analogical construction based on the old first-person plural or perhaps influenced by similar forms in other languages.^[1] Compare Aromanian am(u); cf. also Albanian kam (“I have”).

am

1. first-person singular present indicative of avea

   (I) have

2. first-person singular present subjunctive of avea

From old Romanian amu, presumably from an earlier (proto-) Romanian form aemu (attested in Aromanian), from Latin habēmus. The original first-person singular in proto-Romanian was aibu, from Latin habeō, but was changed to am(u) by analogy with the first-person plural. The form with -v- (avem) in the present form of the verb's main conjugation (as opposed to its use in this form as an auxiliary verb) may have been remade by analogy with avut;^[2] am may also be seen as a reduced, clitic form of avem.^[3] See also ați, which has a parallel development.

am

1. (eu) am (modal auxiliary, first-person singular form of avea, used with past participles to form perfect compus tenses)

   (I) have...

   Eu am câștigat meciul.

   I have won the match.

2. (noi) am (modal auxiliary, first-person plural form of avea, used with past participles to form perfect compus tenses)

   (we) have...

   Noi am fost la biserică duminică.

   We have been to church on Sunday.

• ai
• a
• ați
• au

Presumably from a Vulgar Latin *eamus, from Latin habēbāmus.

am

1. (noi) am (modal auxiliary, first-person plural form of avea, used with infinitives to form conditional tenses)

   (we) would

• aș
• ai
• ar
• ați

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

am

1. inflection of an (“the”):
   1. nominative singular masculine preceding f-
   2. nominative singular masculine preceding b-, m-, p-

Variation of am (definite article)
	Masculine			Feminine			Plural
	nom.	dat.	gen.	nom.	dat.	gen.	nom.	dat.	gen.
+ f-	am	anL		anL		na	na		nam
+ m-, p- or b-	am	a'L		a'L		na	na		nam
+ c- or g-	an	a'L		a'L		na	na		nan
+ sV-, sl-, sn- or sr-	an	anT		anT		na	na		nan
+ other consonant	an	an		an		na	na		nan
+ vowel	anT	an		an		naH	naH		nan
L Triggers lenition; H Triggers H-prothesis; T Triggers T-prothesis

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

am

1. Form of an (“their”) used before the consonants b-, f-, m- or p-.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

am (+ dative, no mutation)

1. Form of an (“in”) used before the consonants b-, f-, m- or p-.

• ann am

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

am

1. Form of an (interrogative particle) used before the consonants b-, f-, m- or p-.

am

1. Form of an (present interrogative copula) used before the consonants b-, f-, m- or p-.

• Colin Mark (2003) The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, pages 32-33

am

1. a.m. (before noon)

   Antonym: pm

am

1. Romanization of 𒄠 (am)

Borrowed from Hokkien 飲／饮 (ám, “rice soup”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔam/ [ˈʔam]
• Rhymes: -am
• Syllabification: am

am (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜋ᜔)

1. Alternative form of aam

• Ma., Ma, ma, ma-

am

1. water

• Takács, Gábor (2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 201, →ISBN:

  […] we should carefully distinguish the following Ch. roots from AA *m-ˀ "water" [GT]:

  (1) Ch. *h-m "water" [GT]: WCh. *hama [Stl.]: AS *ham (Gmy. *hām) [GT 2004, 153] = *am [Stl. 1977] = *ham [Dlg.] = *ham [Stl. 1987]: […] Tng. am [Jng.], […]

• Václav Blažek, A Lexicostatistical comparison of Omotic languages, in In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory: Essays in the four fields of anthropology, page 122

am (Tifinagh spelling ⴰⵎ)

1. like

   Synonym: amecnaw

   netta d ameḥḍar am necc ― He is a student like me.

• (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [ʔaːm˧˥]
• (Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [ʔaːm˦]

am

1. overly soft and sticky from having too much water; pasty; viscid; clammy; soggy

   mỏ khảu bặng chảo am ― the rice in the pot is overly soft like soup

• Hoàng Văn Ma, Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Chí (2006) Từ điển Tày-Nùng-Việt (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Từ điển Bách khoa Hà Nội
• Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt‎^[5][6] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
• Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày‎^[7] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội

From Ottoman Turkish آم, from Proto-Turkic *am (“vulva”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑm/
• Hyphenation: am
• Rhymes: -ɑm

am (definite accusative amı, plural amlar)

1. (vulgar) cunt (genitalia)

Inflection
Nominative	am
Definite accusative	amı
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	am	amlar
Definite accusative	amı	amları
Dative	ama	amlara
Locative	amda	amlarda
Ablative	amdan	amlardan
Genitive	amın	amların
Possessive forms Nominative Singular Plural 1st singular amım amlarım 2nd singular amın amların 3rd singular amı amları 1st plural amımız amlarımız 2nd plural amınız amlarınız 3rd plural amları amları Definite accusative Singular Plural 1st singular amımı amlarımı 2nd singular amını amlarını 3rd singular amını amlarını 1st plural amımızı amlarımızı 2nd plural amınızı amlarınızı 3rd plural amlarını amlarını Dative Singular Plural 1st singular amıma amlarıma 2nd singular amına amlarına 3rd singular amına amlarına 1st plural amımıza amlarımıza 2nd plural amınıza amlarınıza 3rd plural amlarına amlarına Locative Singular Plural 1st singular amımda amlarımda 2nd singular amında amlarında 3rd singular amında amlarında 1st plural amımızda amlarımızda 2nd plural amınızda amlarınızda 3rd plural amlarında amlarında Ablative Singular Plural 1st singular amımdan amlarımdan 2nd singular amından amlarından 3rd singular amından amlarından 1st plural amımızdan amlarımızdan 2nd plural amınızdan amlarınızdan 3rd plural amlarından amlarından Genitive Singular Plural 1st singular amımın amlarımın 2nd singular amının amlarının 3rd singular amının amlarının 1st plural amımızın amlarımızın 2nd plural amınızın amlarınızın 3rd plural amlarının amlarının

• amcık

am

1. spider

am

1. spider

• Leamos uspanteco: Kawitojtak kibꞌ chi rilic jwich wuj laj tzijbꞌal ajtilmit: En uspanteco y español‎^[8] (overall work in Spanish and Uspanteco), ILV, 1998, page 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from 庵.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔaːm˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔaːm˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔaːm˧˧]

(classifier cái) am

1. small Buddhist temple, small pagoda, hermitage, secluded hut, cottage

• ma

am

1. water

• Jeremy Brightbill, Amy Kim, Seung Kim, The War-Jaintia in Bangladesh: a sociolinguistic survey, SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2007-013: 153, page 58

• (about; for): amdan

From Middle Welsh am, from Old Welsh im, from Proto-Celtic *ambi (compare Old Irish imb), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi.

Cognate with Latin ambi-, Sanskrit अभि (abhí, “towards, over, upon”), Old Persian 𐎠𐎲𐎡𐎹 (a-b-i-y /⁠abiy⁠/, “towards, against, upon”), Old High German umbi, Ancient Greek ἀμφί (amphí, “about, around”) and the first part of Old Armenian ամբ-ողջ (amb-ołǰ, “whole”).

• IPA^(key): /am/

am (triggers soft mutation)

1. (with most verbs) about, concerning

   Synonyms: parthed, ynghylch, ynglŷn â

2. (with certain verbs) for, in exchange for
3. (time) at
4. (in exclamations) what a (+noun), how (+adjective)

   Am lanastr! ― What a mess!

   Am annheg! ― How unfair!

am

1. because (followed by fod or a “that”-clause)

   Fydd e ddim yma heddiw am ei fod e’n sâl.

   He won’t be here today as he’s sick.

• achos
• oherwydd

• IPA^(key): /ˈam/

am

1. (transitive) to eat

The verb am ("to eat") takes the same verbal prefixes that directional verbs do.

Conjugation of am (directional verb)
		singular	plural
			inclusive	exclusive
1st person		tiam	miam	aam
2nd person		niam	fiam
3rd person	inanimate	iam	diam
	animate
imperative		niam, am	fiam, am

• a

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[9], Pacific linguistics

am

1. Alternative form of aam
   • 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 106:

     "Murreen leam, kish am." Ich aam goan maake mee will.

     To my grief, I am a big old sow. I am going to make my will,

• 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 106

From Proto-Mayan *Am.

• IPA^(key): [ˈam]

am (plural amoʼob)

1. spider

• Beltrán de Santa Rosa María, Pedro (1746) Arte de el idioma maya reducido a succintas reglas, y semilexicon yucateco (in Spanish), Mexico: Por la Biuda de D. Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, page 176: “Araña otra. Am. .... Eſta mata. ― Another spider. Am. .... This one kills.”
• Montgomery, John (2004) Maya-English, English-Maya (Yucatec) Dictionary & Phrasebook, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 50