mham

Welsh

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /m̥am/

Noun

mham

(North Wales, colloquial) Aspirate mutation of mam.

Usage notes

In standard Welsh, m is not affected by the aspirate mutation. However, some, especially northern, dialects employ a non-standard aspirate mutation of mam to mham. In practice, this only occurs after the determiner ei (“her”). See also nain to nhain for a similar example.

Mutation

Mutated forms of *mam*
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
mam	fam	unchanged	mham^△

^△Irregular.

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.