эммээ
Southern Yukaghir
Etymology
From Proto-Yukaghir *eme-. Cognates include Northern Yukaghir эммуо (emmuo) and Omok емомъ (jemom).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /emˈmeː/
- Hyphenation: эм‧мээ
Interjection
эммээ (emmē)
- mummy/mommy (term of address for one's mother)
- 2000, V. K. Spiridonov; I. A. Nikolaeva, Букварь для 1 класса юкагирских школ [A primer for the 1st class of Yukaghir schools], Saint Petersburg: Просвещение, →ISBN, page 11:
- Эм-мээ, ма!
- Em-mē, ma!
- Mum-my, take it!
- mummy/mommy (term of address for one's older wife)
Related terms
- эмэй (emej, “mother”)
References
- I. A. Nikolaeva; V. G. Shalugin (2002) Словарь Юкагирско-русский и русско-юкагирский (Верхнеколымский диалект) [Yukaghir-Russian and Russian-Yukaghir dictionary (Upper Kolyma dialect)], Saint Petersburg: Дрофа, →ISBN, page 91
- Nikolaeva, Irina (2006) A Historical Dictionary of Yukaghir (Trends in Linguistics Documentation; 25), Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 158