Greenlandic

Alternative forms

• (old orthography) Áma

Proper noun

Amma

1. A female given name.

Related terms

• Ammak

References

• Nuka Møller: Kalaallit aqqi (Greenlandic personal names), Oqaasileriffik 2015, ISBN 978-87-990324-3-3
• Danskernes navne 2005, including the residents of Greenland

English

Noun

amma ‎(plural ammas)

1. mother

Usage notes

• Widely used in English-speaking expat communities.

See also

• amah

Etymology 2

Late Latin amma, probably of interjectional or imitative origin: compare Spanish ama, German Amme, nurse, Basque ama mother, Hebrew, Arabic.

Noun

amma ‎(plural ammas)

1. An abbess or spiritual mother.

Anagrams

• ma'am
• mama

Azeri

Adverb

Template:az-adv

1. yet

Bole

Noun

àmma

1. water

References

• Alhaji Maina Gimba, Russell G. Schuh, Bole-English-Hausa Dictionary and English-Bole Wordlist
• 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]: […] BT *hama [Stl.] = *am- [Schuh], Bole ˀame [Schuh] = aməi [Schuh] = àmmá [Schuh] […]

Cornish

Alternative forms

• (Revived Late Cornish) abma

Etymology

From amm ‎(“kiss”).

Verb

amma

1. to kiss

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse amma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈamːa/
• Rhymes: -amːa

Noun

amma f ‎(genitive singular ömmu, nominative plural ömmur)

1. grandmother, grandma, granny

Declension

Derived terms

• kalla ekki allt ömmu sína
• langamma

Kirfi

Noun

amma

1. water

References

• 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

Latin

Etymology

Pokorny^[1] suggests a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *amma-, *ama- ‎(“mother”). Compare Latin amita ‎(“paternal aunt”), Latin anus ‎(“crone”) and Old High German amma ‎(“wet nurse”).

Noun

amma f ‎(genitive ammae); first declension

1. A nocturnal bird

Inflection

First declension.

References

• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “amma”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

1. ↑ Pokorny, Julius (1959), “am(m)a”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume I, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 36-37

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• (of noun) ammen
• (of verb) ammet

Noun

amma m, f

1. definite feminine singular of amme

Verb

amma

1. simple past of amme
2. past participle of amme

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

amma f

1. definite singular of amme

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *ammǭ ‎(“mother”).

Noun

amma f

1. wet nurse

Descendants

• German: Amme

Old Norse

Noun

amma f

1. grandmother

Descendants

• Faroese: omma f
• Icelandic: amma f

Declension

Turkish

Adverb

amma

1. yet

See also

• ama
• âmâ