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Webster 1913 Edition


Am

Am

.
[AS.
am
,
eom
, akin to Gothic
im
, Icel.
em
, Olr.
am
, Lith.
esmi
, L.
sum
., Gr. [GREEK], Zend
ahmi
, Skr.
asmi
, fr. a root
as
to be. [GREEK]. See
Are
, and cf.
Be
,
Was
.]
The first person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mode, present tense. See
Be
.
God said unto Moses, I
am
that
am
.
Exod. iii. 14.

Webster 1828 Edition


Am

AMB

,AM. About; around; used in composition. Gr., Lat. am or amb.

Definition 2024


âm

âm

See also: Appendix:Variations of "am"

Ngizim

Noun

âm

  1. water

References

  • Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3: m- (2007, ISBN 9789004164123), 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 9042908262), 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. (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
Derived terms
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Sino-Vietnamese word from (“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, ****
Derived terms