ammus

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑmːus/,
• Rhymes: -ɑmːus
• Syllabification^(key): am‧mus

ammu- +‎ -us

ammus

1. projectile (general term for any kind of firearm projectile)
2. (in the plural) ammunition

• ampua

• “ammus”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

ammus

1. second-person singular present imperative of ampua (with enclitic -s)

ammus

1. second-person singular present imperative of ammua (with enclitic -s)

• sammu, samum, summa

From ampua (“to strike”) +‎ -us. Akin to Finnish ammus.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈɑmːus/,
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈɑmːus/,
• (Hevaha) IPA^(key): /ˈɑmːus/,
• Rhymes: -ɑmːus
• Hyphenation: am‧mus

ammus

1. attack (of an illness)

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 15
• Arvo Laanest (1997) Isuri keele Hevaha murde sõnastik, Eesti Keele Instituut, page 20

From the same root as ames (“to be dirty”).

ammus m (construct wammus, plural ammusen, construct plural wammusen)

1. filth, dirt

• amas (late form)

From a byform *admessus, a derivative of Proto-Celtic *messus, the ancestor of mess (“judgement”). Equivalent henceforth to ad- +‎ mess. The syncope of the front vowel in the second syllable triggered the palatalization of the ms cluster in the oblique stems, with u-infection obscuring the original front vowel in the rest of the declension.

• IPA^(key): /ˈamus/

ammus m

1. verbal noun of ad·midethar
2. attempt, effort
3. act of tempting, temptation
4. act of attacking; attack
5. guess, conjecture
6. act of hitting the mark
7. (poetry) assonance, imperfect rhyme

• Irish: amas

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ammus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language