ämmä

• IPA^(key): /ˈæmːæ/, [ˈæmːæ]
• Rhymes: -æmːæ
• Syllabification^(key): äm‧mä

From Proto-Finnic *ämmä, cognate with Estonian ämm and Livonian ǟma.

ämmä

1. (archaic) wife, woman
2. (derogatory) hag (old woman)
3. (derogatory) bitch (contemptible woman)
4. (derogatory, colloquial) wife
5. mother of all (on a spinning wheel)

• (old woman, wife, derogatory) akka
• (wife, derogatory) muija

Variant of äm.

ämmä

1. The name of the Latin-script letter M.
2. (colloquial) magna cum laude approbatur

In sequences of letters (such as initialisms), the shorter form äm is considerably more common (except perhaps for the final letter).

• äm (letter)

From Proto-Finnic *ämmä. Cognates with Finnish ämmä (“old woman”) and Estonian ämm (“mother-in-law”).

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈæmːæ/, [ˈæmː]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈæmːæ/, [ˈæmːæ]
• Rhymes: -æmːæ
• Hyphenation: äm‧mä

ämmä

1. grandma
   • 1936, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 12:

     Kuhu laatiit? - kyssyy ämmä.

     Where are you going? - grandma asks.

2. old woman
3. midwife
4. mother-in-law

• (grandma): ämmö
• (old woman): ämmö, akka
• (mother-in-law): ämmö

• (grandma): äijä (“grandpa”)
• (old woman): ukko, äijä (“old father”)
• (mother-in-law): äijä (“father-in-law”)

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 697

From Proto-Finnic *ämmä. Cognates include Finnish ämmä and Estonian ämm.

• IPA^(key): /ˈæmːæ/
• Hyphenation: äm‧mä

ämmä (genitive ämmän, partitive ämmyä or ämmiä)

1. (dialectal) Synonym of ämmö (“grandmother”)
2. (dialectal, derogatory) Synonym of akka (“hag”)

• Pertti Virtaranta; Raija Koponen (2009), “ämmä”, in Marja Torikka, editor, Karjalan kielen sanakirja, Helsinki: Kotus, ISSN 1796-041X