different between mem vs mam

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Etymology 1

From Phoenician ????????? (mm /mem/, “water”), from Proto-Semitic *ma?- (“*ma?-/*may-”).

Alternative forms

• meem, mim

Noun

mem (plural mems)

1. The thirteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

Translations

Etymology 2

Shortening.

Noun

mem (plural mems)

1. (computing) A memory access as part of processing.

Further reading

• mem on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• EMM, Emm

Catalan

Etymology

English meme

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?m?m/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?m?m/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?mem/

Noun

mem m (plural mems)

1. meme (unit of cultural information)
2. internet meme

Further reading

• mem on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ca
• mem d'Internet on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ca

Czech

Noun

mem m

1. meme

Related terms

• memetika f

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mem/
• Hyphenation: mem
• Audio:

Particle

mem

1. -self, -selves
   • 1998, Henrik Ibsen, trans. Odd Tangerud Puphejmo : Dramo en tri aktoj, [1]

     KROGSTAD. Vere ne? ?ajnas al mi, ke vi mem ?us diris —

     KROGSTAD. Truly not? It seems to me, that you yourself just said —

Derived terms

• memportreto

Pronoun

mem

1. itself

Finnish

Noun

mem

1. mem (thirteenth letter of the Hebrew and Phoenician scripts and the Northwest Semitic abjad)

Declension

Anagrams

• -mme

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from French même, from Old French mesme, from Vulgar Latin *metipsimus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mem/

Adverb

mem

1. even, still (in comparson)

2. (emphasis) really, indeed

See also

• ya (“indeed”)

Italian

Etymology

From Hebrew ??? (m?m), from Phoenician ????????? (mm, “water”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mem/
• Hyphenation: mém

Noun

mem m or f (invariable)

1. mem, specifically:
   1. The name of the Phoenician-script letter ????
   2. The name of the Hebrew-script letter ?/?

Mauritian Creole

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mem/

Etymology

From French même.

Adjective

mem

1. same

Adverb

mem

1. even

Derived terms

• mem si

Polish

Etymology

From English meme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?m/

Noun

mem m inan

1. meme (unit of cultural information)
2. meme (something copied and circulated online)

Declension

Further reading

• mem in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• mem in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Etymology

From English meme coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976), similar to gene. The book was translated to Swedish by Roland Adlerbeth, Den själviska genen (1983). The Swedish word mem follows the grammar of gen (“gene”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?m/

Noun

mem c

1. a meme (unit of cultural information)

Declension

Related terms

• memetik

Tocharian A

Etymology

From Proto-Tocharian *meim, a nominal derivative of *mei- (“to measure”). Possibly linked to Proto-Indo-European *mod-ye/o- or *m?dye/o-, derivatives of *med- (“to measure, give advice, heal”) (whence Latin meditor), or alternatively to *meh?-ye/o- from *meh?- (“to measure”) (whence Latin m?tior). Compare Tocharian B maim.

Noun

mem

1. thought, thinking

Volapük

Noun

mem (nominative plural mems)

1. memory

Declension

West Frisian

Etymology

Probably from Old Frisian *m?me, from Proto-West Germanic *m?m?. Compare English mum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?m/

Noun

mem c (plural memmen, diminutive memke)

1. mother, mom

   Coordinate term: heit

Further reading

• “mem”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

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