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Southern Yukaghir
Etymology
From Proto-Yukaghir *eme-. Cognates include Northern Yukaghir эммуо (emmuo) and Omok емомъ (jemom).
Pronunciation
Interjection
эммээ (emmē)
- mummy/mommy (term of address for one's mother)
2000, V. K. Spiridonov, I. A. Nikolaeva, Букварь для 1 класса юкагирских школ [A primer for the 1st class of Yukaghir schools], Saint Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, page 11:Эм-мээ, ма!- Em-mē, ma!
- Mum-my, take it!
- mummy/mommy (term of address for one's older wife)
References
- I. A. Nikolaeva, V. G. Shalugin (2002) Словарь Юкагирско-русский и русско-юкагирский (Верхнеколымский диалект) [Yukaghir-Russian and Russian-Yukaghir dictionary (Upper Kolyma dialect)], Saint Petersburg: Дрофа, →ISBN, page 91
- Nikolaeva, Irina (2006) A Historical Dictionary of Yukaghir (Trends in Linguistics Documentation; 25), Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 158