ämmö

See also: ammo

Karelian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈæmːø/

Noun

ämmö (genitive ämmön, partitive ämmyö)

  1. grandmother

References
  • P. M. Zaykov (1999) Грамматика Карельского языка (фонетика и морфология) [Grammar of the Karelian language (phonetics and morphology)], →ISBN, page 15
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