эммээ

Southern Yukaghir

Etymology

From Proto-Yukaghir *eme-. Cognates include Northern Yukaghir эммуо (emmuo) and Omok емомъ (jemom).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [emˈmeː]
  • Rhymes: -eː
  • Hyphenation: эм‧мээ

Interjection

эммээ (emmē)

  1. 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!
  2. mummy/mommy (term of address for one's older wife)

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
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