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(a̤m or äm)

Noun.

[D.

aam

, fr. LL.

ama

; cf. L.

hama

a water bucket, Gr. [GREEK]]

A Dutch and German measure of liquids, varying in different cities, being at Amsterdam about 41 wine gallons, at Antwerp 36½, at Hamburg 38¼.

[Written also

Aum

and

Awm

Noun.

A measure of liquids among the Dutch equal to 288 English pints.

See also: aam, Aam, AAM, aa’m, a'am, and åm

aàm

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]: WCh. *hama [Stl.]: AS *ham (Gmy. *hām) [GT 2004, 153] = *am [Stl. 1977] = *ham [Dlg.] = *ham [Stl. 1987]: […] Ron *ham [GT]: Fyer & Bks. & DB & Sha ham, Klr. ˀaàm […]
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
Roger Blench, Ron Comparative Wordlist (Richa dialect)