mem
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɛm/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛm
Etymology 1
From Phoenician 𐤌𐤌 (mm /mem/, “water”), from Proto-Semitic *maʾ- (“*maʾ-/*may-”). Doublet of mu.
Noun
mem (plural mems)
- The thirteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
Translations
Etymology 2
Shortening.
Catalan
Further reading
mem on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ca
mem d'Internet on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ca
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [mem]
- Audio:
(file) - Hyphenation: mem
Particle
mem
Derived terms
Pronoun
mem
Finnish
Etymology
From Phoenician [Term?].
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmem/, [ˈme̞m]
- Rhymes: -em
- Syllabification(key): mem
Noun
mem
- mem (thirteenth letter of the Hebrew and Phoenician scripts and the Northwest Semitic abjad)
Declension
Inflection of mem (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | mem | memit | |
genitive | memin | memien | |
partitive | memiä | memejä | |
illative | memiin | memeihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | mem | memit | |
accusative | nom. | mem | memit |
gen. | memin | ||
genitive | memin | memien | |
partitive | memiä | memejä | |
inessive | memissä | memeissä | |
elative | memistä | memeistä | |
illative | memiin | memeihin | |
adessive | memillä | memeillä | |
ablative | memiltä | memeiltä | |
allative | memille | memeille | |
essive | meminä | memeinä | |
translative | memiksi | memeiksi | |
instructive | — | memein | |
abessive | memittä | memeittä | |
comitative | — | memeineen |
Possessive forms of mem (type risti) | ||
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possessor | singular | plural |
1st person | memini | memimme |
2nd person | memisi | meminne |
3rd person | meminsä |
Ido
Etymology
Borrowed from French même, from Old French mesme, from Vulgar Latin *metipsimus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mem/
Adverb
mem
Italian
Etymology
From Hebrew מם (mēm), from Phoenician 𐤌𐤌 (mm, “water”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmem/
- Rhymes: -em
- Hyphenation: mém
Mauritian Creole
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mem/
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɛm/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɛm
- Syllabification: mem
Declension
Swedish
Etymology
From English meme coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976), similar to gene. The book was translated to Swedish by Roland Adlerbeth, Den själviska genen (1983). The Swedish word mem follows the grammar of gen (“gene”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /meːm/
Tocharian A
Etymology
From Proto-Tocharian *meim, a nominal derivative of *mei- (“to measure”). Possibly linked to Proto-Indo-European *mod-ye/o- or *mēdye/o-, derivatives of *med- (“to measure, give advice, heal”) (whence Latin meditor), or alternatively to *meh₁-ye/o- from *meh₁- (“to measure”) (whence Latin mētior). Compare Tocharian B maim.
Volapük
West Frisian
Etymology
Probably from Old Frisian *mōme, from Proto-West Germanic *mōmā. Compare English mum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɛm/
Further reading
- “mem”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011