ämmä

• IPA^(key): /ˈæmːæ/, [ˈæmːæ]
• Rhymes: -æmːæ
• Syllabification^(key): äm‧mä
• Hyphenation^(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): akka (derogatory)
• (wife): muija (often derogatory)

• “ämmä”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

Variant of äm.

ämmä

1. The name of the Latin-script letter M/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: -æmː, -æmːæ
• Hyphenation: äm‧mä

ämmä

1. grandmother
   • 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

• (grandmother): ämmö
• (midwife): babka
• (old woman): ämmö, akka, staruhha
• (mother-in-law): ämmö

• (grandmother): äijä (“grandfather”)
• (old woman): ukko, äijä, starikka (“old father”)
• (mother-in-law): äijä (“father-in-law”)

• Fedor Tumansky (1790) “эмме”, in Опытъ повѣствованїя о дѣянїях, положенїи, состоянїи и раздѣленїи Санкт-Петербургской губернїи [An experiment of an account of the acts, location, condition and division of the Saint Petersburg gubernia], Краткїй словарь ижерскаго, финскаго, эстонскаго, чюдскаго, и ямскаго нарѣчїя съ россїйскимъ переводомъ [A short dictionary of the Ingrian, Finnish, Estonian, Chud and Yamtian dialects with a Russian translation], page 699
• 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^[2], Helsinki: Kotus, →ISSN