mham

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Welsh

Pronunciation

Noun

mham

  1. (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.