ammo
See also: ämmö, -ammo, and ammo-
English
Etymology
Clipping of ammunition + -o.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈæ.moʊ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -æməʊ
Noun
ammo (usually uncountable, plural ammos)
- (informal) Ammunition.
- 1917, Arthur Guy Empey, “Lewis Gun”, in Over the Top, G. P. Putnam's, page 297:
- Under fire when this magazine is emptied you shout for “ammo” but perhaps No. 2, the ammo carrier, is lying in the rear with a bullet through his napper. Then it's “napoo-fini” (Tommy's French) for Mr. Lewis.
- 2011, Mark Brannon, Tom Hanrahan, Shooting Sporting Clays (page 39)
- As with handguns and rifles, some ammos are more accurate than others.
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Derived terms
- ammo belt
- ammo humper
Verb
ammo (third-person singular simple present ammos, present participle ammoing, simple past and past participle ammoed)
- (transitive, informal) To load up on ammunition.
- Synonym: ammo up
- 2001, H. Beam Piper, Uller Uprising:
- "Harry and Hassan are getting the car re-ammoed; they dropped me off here.
Further reading
- Jonathon Green (2023), “ammo n.”, in Green's Dictionary of Slang
Anagrams
- Mamo, MoMA, OMAM, mamo
Finnish
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *ammo, from Proto-Uralic *aŋmɜ-. Cognate to Ingrian ammillaa, Votic ammulla, Estonian ammuli, Estonian ammu, Livonian amtlõ (“to yawn”), Skolt Sami ämmsõddâd (“to yawn”), Western Mari [script needed] (omeštaš, “to talk or move while in sleep or to talk unclearly”), Selkup [script needed] (āmmu-, “yawnable, something that makes one to yawn”), Kamassian [script needed] (a’moi-, “yawnable, something that makes one to yawn”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɑmːo/, [ˈɑmːo̞]
- Rhymes: -ɑmːo
- Syllabification(key): am‧mo
Noun
ammo
- (dialectal, rare) something that widens on a mouth section, like a mouth or a cavity
Declension
| Inflection of ammo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | ammo | ammot | |
| genitive | ammon | ammojen | |
| partitive | ammoa | ammoja | |
| illative | ammoon | ammoihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | ammo | ammot | |
| accusative | nom. | ammo | ammot |
| gen. | ammon | ||
| genitive | ammon | ammojen | |
| partitive | ammoa | ammoja | |
| inessive | ammossa | ammoissa | |
| elative | ammosta | ammoista | |
| illative | ammoon | ammoihin | |
| adessive | ammolla | ammoilla | |
| ablative | ammolta | ammoilta | |
| allative | ammolle | ammoille | |
| essive | ammona | ammoina | |
| translative | ammoksi | ammoiksi | |
| instructive | — | ammoin | |
| abessive | ammotta | ammoitta | |
| comitative | — | ammoineen | |
| Possessive forms of ammo (type valo) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | ammoni | ammomme |
| 2nd person | ammosi | ammonne |
| 3rd person | ammonsa | |
Derived terms
- ammolla
- ammolleen
- ammossa
- ammottaa
References
- ammuli in Metsmägi, Iris; Sedrik, Meeli; Soosaar, Sven-Erik (2012), Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Instituut, →ISBN
- Itkonen, Erkki; Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000) Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words] (in Finnish), [note: linked online version also includes some other etymological sources], Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN
- Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland