ym

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See also: Ym, ym., and ym-

Translingual

Symbol

ym

  1. (metrology) Symbol for yoctometer (yoctometre), an SI unit of length equal to 10−24 meters (metres).

Egyptian

Etymology

Borrowed from Northwest Semitic. Compare Hebrew יָם (yām) and cognates listed at that entry.

Pronunciation

Noun

iiG20mwN36
N23

 m

  1. sea, lake

Usage notes

Most commonly used in reference to the Mediterranean Sea, but also applied to Lake Moeris and other smaller bodies of water.

The glyph
mw
does double duty in some writings of this word, serving simultaneously as a determinative and as a phonetic mw.

Inflection

Declension of ym (masculine)
singular ym
dual ymwj
plural ymw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ym  
iimwN36
N21 Z1
iimwN36
Z1 N21
iim&a WmwN36
N23 Z1
iiWm&a mwN36
N23 Z1
iim&a mwN36
N23 Z1
iim&a mwN36
N23
iiG20N35B
N36
i i
n
Z2		 im
a
N35B		 N36
N21
ymw ymw ymw ywm ym ym ym ynm
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ym  
iiim
a		 mw
iiim
a		 mwN36
iim&a a
N35B
iiWm&a mwN36
N23
iiwG20N36
ym ym ym ywm ywm

Descendants

References

  • “ym (lemma ID 24730)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 78.11
  • Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 18
  • Hoch, James E. (1994) Semitic Words in Egyptian Texts of the New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period, Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, pages 52–53

Icelandic

Verb

ym (weak)

  1. first-person singular present indicative of ymja
  2. second-person singular imperative of ymja

Middle English

Pronoun

ym

  1. Alternative form of him (“him”)

Welsh

Preposition

ym

  1. Alternative form of yn (“in”) used before m.
    ym Mangor ― in Bangor
    ym Mhontypridd ― in Pontypridd
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