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Czech
Pronunciation
Verb
mám
- first-person singular present indicative of mít
Macanese
Etymology
From Portuguese mão, with influence from Cantonese 手 (sau2).
Pronunciation
Noun
mám
- (anatomy) hand
- Coordinate term: pê (“foot”)
- pê-mám ― feet and hands
- mám-fichado ― miserly, tight-fisted (literally, “hand closed”)
- mám tánto ― person who interferes with things that are not their responsibility (literally, “much hand”)
- mám cumprido ― thief; sticky-fingered, prone to stealing (literally, “long hand”)
- mám di fada ― nimble-fingered (literally, “hand of fairy”)
- mám pa trás ― idle-handed; lazy person (literally, “hand at back”)
- pegâ mám andâ rua ― to hold hands walking the streets
- cai pê-mám ― to lose one's temper; to become disoriented (literally, “to fall feet-hands”)
- mám-lárgo ― generous (literally, “big hand”)
- mám-macaco ― fidgety (literally, “monkey hand”)
- mám-fêde ― someone with a dirty mind (literally, “stinky hand”)
- mám-cutí ― doorknob (literally, “hit hand”)
- (anatomy) arm
- pê-mám ― legs and arms
Usage notes
Derived terms
References
Old Irish
Etymology
Uncertain. Has been connected to Proto-Germanic *makaz (“fit, suitable”),[1] though this is dubious.
Pronunciation
Noun
mám m (genitive máma)
- yoke
Inflection
Masculine u-stem
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Singular
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Dual
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Plural
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Nominative
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mám
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mámL
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mámae
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Vocative
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mám
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mámL
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mámu
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Accusative
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mámN
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mámL
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mámu
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Genitive
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mámoH, mámaH
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mámo, máma
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mámaeN
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Dative
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mámL
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mámaib
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mámaib
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Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
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Quotations
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 18c6
Is machthad limm a threte do·rérachtid máam fírinne et soscéli; .i. i⟨s⟩ súaignid nírubtar gaítha for comairli. Is dían do·rréractid maám ind ṡoscéli.- I marvel how quickly you pl have abandoned the yoke of righteousness and gospel; i.e. it is clear that your counsels have not been wise. It is swiftly that you have abandoned the yoke of the gospel.
- (literally, “it is a wonder to me its quickness that…”)
Derived terms
Descendants
Mutation
Old Irish mutation
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Nasalization
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mám also mmám after a proclitic ending in a vowel
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mám pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/
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unchanged
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
- ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*maka-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 350
Further reading
Wastek
Noun
mám
- grandfather
References