mä

mä

1. mother

• Sabine Dedenbach-Salazar Sáenz, Katja Hannß, Chipaya case markers -kiś and -kin: Subject and speaker reference (2008)

Dialectal variant of minä that has developed through contraction; see it and its etymon, Proto-Finnic *minä, for more.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmæ/, [ˈmæ]
• Rhymes: -æ
• Syllabification^(key): mä

mä (colloquial)

1. (personal) I (first person singular personal pronoun)

• Irregular: the comitative, instructive and abessive cases, in practice highly rare for personal pronouns anyway, are not used.
• In addition to the standard set of cases, mä as well as minä and other personal pronouns have a specific accusative form, mut.

• minä (standard Finnish; see it for a full list)

• “mä”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• äm

• ma, mee

From French mais (“but”), from Old French mais, from Latin magis. Perhaps merged with a descendant of Middle High German niwære (“but, only”). Rests of such forms (mär, mar, mor) are attested in several dialects not far to the east and north of Luxembourg. It is plausible that this inherited word, which may already have become dated, was absorbed by the French borrowing. Compare Dutch maar and Luxembourgish nëmmen.

• IPA^(key): /mæ/, [mɛː]

mä

1. but

• awer

• mäh
• Any number of ä letters can be added to show the length of the bleat.

Imitative.

mä

1. maa (bleating of a sheep or goat)

   Synonym: bä

• bräka

• mä in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)