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Khiamniungan Naga
Pronunciation
Verb
âm
- (Patsho) To soak things especially food and clothes.
- (Patsho) flowering of bamboo plant which usually indicates an end of its life.
Ngizim
Etymology
Cognate with Mwaghavul àm, Gerka ram, Miship əm.
Noun
âm
- water
References
- Takács, Gábor (2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 201, →ISBN:
- we should carefully distinguish the following Ch. roots from AA *m-ˀ "water" :
- (1) Ch. *h-m "water" : Ngz. am
- Etudes berbères et chamito-sémitiques: mélanges offerts à Karl-G. Prasse (2000, →ISBN, page 38
- Václav Blažek, A Lexicostatistical comparison of Omotic languages, in In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory: Essays in the four fields of anthropology, page 122
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Sino-Vietnamese word from 音 (“sound”).
Noun
âm
- sound
- (phonetics, colloquial) clipping of âm tố or ngữ âm (“phone”)
- (phonology, colloquial) clipping of âm vị (“phoneme”)
- (linguistics, colloquial) clipping of âm tiết (“syllable”)
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Etymology 2
Sino-Vietnamese word from 陰.
Noun
âm
- (occult) yin
Adjective
âm
- (occult) having "yin" characteristics, as in "dark", "lunar" or "feminine"
- ngày âm ― a lunar day
- (mathematics, physics) negative
- điện âm ― negative charges
Prefix
âm
- minus; negative
- Synonym: trừ
- -10° (âm 10 độ) ― -10° (minus/negative 10 degrees )
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