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)

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