âm

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Ngizim

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Etymology

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Cognate with Mwaghavul àm, Gerka ram, Miship əm.

Noun

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âm

  1. water

References

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  • Takács, Gábor (2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 201, →ISBN:
    [] 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 Lexicostatistical comparison of Omotic languages, in In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory: Essays in the four fields of anthropology, page 122

Vietnamese

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Sino-Vietnamese word from (sound).

Noun

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âm

  1. sound
  2. (phonetics, colloquial) Clipping of âm tố or clipping of ngữ âm (phone).
  3. (phonology, colloquial) clipping of âm vị (phoneme).
  4. (linguistics, colloquial) Clipping of âm tiết (syllable).
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Etymology 2

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Sino-Vietnamese word from .

Noun

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âm

  1. (occult) yin

Adjective

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âm

  1. (occult) having "yin" characteristics, as in "dark", "lunar" or "feminine"
    ngày âm
    a lunar day
  2. (mathematics, physics) negative
    điện âm
    negative charges

Prefix

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âm

  1. minus; negative
    Synonym: trừ
    -10° (âm 10 độ)
    -10° (minus/negative 10 degrees [Celsius])
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