âm

See also: Appendix:Variations of "am"

Ngizim

Noun

âm

  1. water

References

  • Takács, Gábor (1999-2008) 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 音 (“sound”).

Noun

âm

  1. sound
  2. (linguistics, phonetics, colloquial) phone, short for âm tố or ngữ âm
  3. (linguistics, phonology, colloquial) phoneme, short for âm tố or âm vị
  4. (linguistics, colloquial) syllable, short for âm tiết
Synonyms
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Sino-Vietnamese word from 陰 (“yin”).

Noun

âm

  1. yin

Adjective

âm

  1. related to yin
  2. related to the feminine, of feminine characteristics
  3. related to or associated with the underworld, hell
Derived terms

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