-əm

See also: Appendix:Variations of "em"

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish ـم (-em, “first-person singular suffix”), ـن (-en), ـون (-ven), ـمن (-men) , ـوم (-vem); ultimately from Proto-Turkic *-bẹn (see mən (“I”)). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰢𐰤 (mn² /⁠-men⁠/, “first person singular suffix”), Karakhanid مَنْ (men, “I, first person singular postposition”), Old Uyghur [script needed] (-men, “first person singular suffix”).

Suffix

preceding vowel
a / ı / o / u e / ə / i̇ / ö / ü
postconsonantal -am
postvocalic -yam -yəm

-əm

  1. First-person singular present simple copula (used suppletively in place of *imək):
    1. [I] am
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