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Translingual
[edit]Symbol
[edit]ym
- (metrology) Symbol for yoctometer (yoctometre), an SI unit of length equal to 10−24 meters (metres).
Egyptian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Northwest Semitic. Compare Hebrew יָם (yām) and cognates listed therein.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /iːm/
- Conventional anglicization: ym
Noun
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m
Usage notes
[edit]Most commonly used in reference to the Mediterranean Sea, but also applied to Lake Moeris and other smaller bodies of water.
The glyph
does double duty in some writings of this word, serving simultaneously as a determinative and as a phonetic mw.
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Inflection
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Demotic: ym
References
[edit]- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 78.11
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 18
- Hoch, James E. (1994) Semitic Words in Egyptian Texts of the New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period, Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, pages 52–53
Icelandic
[edit]Verb
[edit]ym (weak)
Middle English
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]ym
- Alternative form of him (“him”)
Welsh
[edit]Preposition
[edit]ym
- Alternative form of yn (“in”) used before m.
- ym Mangor ― in Bangor
- ym Mhontypridd ― in Pontypridd
Categories:
- Translingual lemmas
- Translingual symbols
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- Symbols for SI units
- Egyptian terms borrowed from Northwest Semitic languages
- Egyptian terms derived from Northwest Semitic languages
- Egyptian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Egyptian lemmas
- Egyptian nouns
- Egyptian masculine nouns
- Icelandic non-lemma forms
- Icelandic verb forms
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English pronouns
- Welsh lemmas
- Welsh prepositions
- Welsh terms with usage examples