different between mam vs eam

English

Etymology

Alteration or clipping of mama. Compare Scots mam, Old Scots mame (“mother”), mamye (“wet nurse”), Saterland Frisian Määme (“mother”), West Frisian mem (“mother”).Alternatively, possibly either conserved from or influenced by earlier Brythonic language.

Noun

mam (plural mams)

1. (informal and colloquial) Mum, mom; diminutive of mother.

Usage notes

• Used in place of mum or ma in Scotland, Northumbrian dialects such as Geordie, as well as throughout Ireland and Liverpool, and the South Wales valleys; the Welsh word for mother is mam.

See also

• ma'am

References

• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ?ISBN
• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [1]

Anagrams

• MMA

Bahnar

Etymology

From Proto-Bahnaric *ma?m. Cognate with Sedang méam.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?m/

Noun

mam 

1. metal, iron, steel

Derived terms

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from English ma'am, contraction of madam.

Noun

mam

1. An address to a female superior.
2. An address to a female teacher.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Noun

mam f (plural mammen, diminutive mammetje n)

1. mother

Irish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Compare Old Irish muimme (“foster mother”), Proto-Celtic *mamm?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [m?am?]

Noun

mam f (genitive singular maime, nominative plural mamanna)

1. mam, mum, mom

Declension

Synonyms

• maime
• mamaí

Mutation

Further reading

• "mam" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mam]

Verb

mam

1. first-person singular present of m??

Derived terms

• mamk a hamk

Luxembourgish

Contraction

mam

1. contraction of mat + dem; with the

North Frisian

Etymology

Cognates include West Frisian mem.

Noun

mam f (plural mamen)

1. (Mooring, Föhr-Amrum) mother

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mam/

Verb

mam

1. first-person singular present of mie?

Verb

mam

1. second-person singular imperative of mami?

Noun

mam f

1. genitive plural of mama

Further reading

• mam in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Adverb

mam (Cyrillic spelling ???)

1. (Kajkavian) right now
2. (Kajkavian) immediately

Related terms

• odmah

Spanish

Etymology

From the name in Mam, of Mayan origin.

Adjective

mam (plural mames)

1. (relational) Mam (of or relating to the Mam people)

Noun

mam m (uncountable)

1. Mam (language)

Noun

mam m or f (plural mam or mames)

1. Mam

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *mamm, from Proto-Celtic *mamm?, a baby talk word replacing Proto-Celtic *m?t?r.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mam/

Noun

mam f (plural mamau)

1. mother
2. ancestress
3. dam
4. queen bee

Coordinate terms

• mab (“son”)
• merch (“daughter”)
• tad (“father”)

Mutation

Usage notes

Some, especially northern, dialects employ a non-standard aspirate mutation of mam to mham. In practice, this only occurs after the determiner ei (“her”). See also nain to nhain for a similar example.

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “mam”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Wemba-Wemba

Noun

mam

1. father

English

Alternative forms

• eame
• eme (Scottish)

Etymology

From Middle English eem, eme, from Old English ?am (“maternal uncle”), from Proto-Germanic *awahaimaz (“maternal uncle”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?éwh?os (“maternal uncle, maternal grandfather”). Cognate with Scots eme (“uncle”), West Frisian iem, omke (“uncle”), Dutch oom (“uncle”), German Ohm, Oheim (“maternal uncle”), Latin avunculus (“maternal uncle”). See uncle. Doublet of oom.

Noun

eam (plural eams)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) Uncle.
   • 2011, Ernest R. Holloway, Andrew Melville and Humanism in Renaissance Scotland 1545-1622:

     James Melville remarked that during his uncle's time in Geneva he became “weill acquented with my eam, Mr. hendrie Scrymgeour” and was said to have been “a frequent visitor at his lodgings in town, and also at the Violet.

Related terms

• neam

Anagrams

• AME, AmE, EMA, Mae, ema

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?e.am/, [?eä??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?e.am/, [????m]

Pronoun

eam

1. accusative feminine singular of is: "her", "it" (referring to feminine nouns), or demonstratively (as a demonstrative pronoun) "this", "that" (likewise referring to feminine nouns).

Verb

eam

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of e?

Old English

Etymology 1

Contracted from earlier *?ah?m, from Proto-West Germanic *auhaim (“maternal uncle”).

See also Gothic ???????????? (aw?, “grandmother”); Latin avus (“grandfather”), avunculus (“uncle”), dialectal Russian ?? (uj, “maternal uncle”), Ukrainian ??? (vuj, “uncle”), all from Proto-Indo-European *awos, *h?éwh?os (“maternal uncle, maternal grandfather”). The word is cognate with Old Frisian ?m, Middle Dutch oom (Dutch oom), Old High German oheim (German Oheim, Ohm).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æ???m/

Noun

?am m (nominative plural ?amas)

1. uncle (especially maternal)

Declension

Related terms

• fædera

Descendants

• Middle English: eme, eem
  • English: eam
  • Scots: eme, eyme, eym

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *immi (“I am”), a form of *wesan?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ésmi (“am”). More at am.

Alternative forms

• eom, æm

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æ??m/

Verb

eam

1. Alternative form of eom

Teop

Pronoun

eam

1. you (second-person pronoun, nominative case, plural)

Further reading

• http://corpus1.mpi.nl/media-archive/dobes_data/Teop/Teop_Language_Corpus/Literature/Legends/Legends_open_/Annotations/Iar_2_G.pdf
• https://web.archive.org/web/20170516185153/http://www.ioling.org/booklets/iol-2012-indiv-sol.en.pdf