âm

See also: Appendix:Variations of "am"

Ngizim

Noun

âm

  1. water

References

  • Takács, Gábor (2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 201:
    [] we should carefully distinguish the following Ch. roots from AA *m-ˀ "water" [GT]:
    (1) Ch. *h-m "water" [GT]: [] Ngz. am []
  • Etudes berbères et chamito-sémitiques: mélanges offerts à Karl-G. Prasse (2000, →ISBN, page 38
  • Václav Blažek, A Lexicostatitical 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 (“sound”).

Noun

âm

  1. sound
  2. (phonetics, colloquial) Clipping of âm tố or clipping of ngữ âm (phone).
  3. (phonology, colloquial) Clipping of âm tố or clipping of âm vị (phoneme).
  4. (linguistics, colloquial) Clipping of âm tiết (syllable).
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Etymology 2

Sino-Vietnamese word from .

Noun

âm

  1. (occult) yin

Adjective

âm

  1. (occult) having "yin" characteristics, as in "dark", "lunar" or "feminine"
    ngày âm
    a lunar day
  2. (mathematics, physics) negative
    điện âm
    negative charges

Prefix

âm

  1. minus
    Synonym: trừ
    -10° (âm 10 độ)
    -10° (minus 10 degrees [Celsius])

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