mam

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.

mam (plural mams)

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

• 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.

• ma'am

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

• MMA

Borrowed from English ma'am, contraction of madam.

mam

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

• IPA^(key): /mɑm/

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• Rhymes: -ɑm

mam f (plural mammen, diminutive mammetje n)

1. mother

Compare Old Irish muimme (“foster mother”), Proto-Celtic *mammā.

• IPA^(key): [mˠamˠ]

mam f (genitive singular maime, nominative plural mamanna)

1. mam, mum, mom

• maime
• mamaí

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

• IPA^(key): [mam]

mam

1. first-person singular present of měś

• mamk a hamk

mam

1. contraction of mat + dem; with the

Cognates include West Frisian mem.

mam f (plural mamen)

1. (Mooring, Föhr-Amrum) mother

   mam an aatj

   mother and father

• IPA^(key): /mam/

mam

1. first-person singular present of mieć

mam

1. second-person singular imperative of mamić

mam f

1. genitive plural of mama

• mam in Polish dictionaries at PWN

mam (Cyrillic spelling мам)

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

• odmah

mam (plural mames)

1. Mam (of or pertaining to the Mam people)

mam m (uncountable)

1. Mam (language)

mam m or f (plural mam or mames)

1. Mam

From Proto-Brythonic *mamm, from Proto-Celtic *mammā, a baby talk word replacing Proto-Celtic *mātīr.

• IPA^(key): /mam/

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mam f (plural mamau)

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

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

• Angharad Fychan and Ann Parry Owen, editors (2014), “mam”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

mam

1. father