-m

• IPA^(key): /-m/ [-m]

-m

1. Used to form (pro)nouns taking on the quality of the suffixed determiners, numbers, verbs and nouns.

   ‎yí (“my”) + ‎-m → ‎yím (“mine (my something)”)

• When added to a noun, the suffix is added to a genitive:

  ‎áwka (“boy”) + ‎-m → ‎awkím (“the boy's thing”)

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN, page 236

From Proto-Finnic *-mpi, cognate to Finnish -mpi.

-m

1. Forms comparative adjectives.

From Proto-Finnic *-ma, cognate to Finnish -ma.

-m

1. Forms nouns from verbs.

   koguma (“to collect”) → kogum (“collection, complex, group of items or objects”)

   valima (“to select”) → valim (“sample (in statistics)”)

   hõljuma (“to float”) → hõljum (“plankton”)

Possibly from Proto-Uralic *mᴕ̈ (“I”); see also én (“I”). Cognate with Northern Mansi -м (-m, “my”).

-m

2. (possessive suffix) my (first-person singular, single possession)
4. (personal suffix) First-person singular personal suffix:
   1. Definite forms of transitive verbs (followed by a linking vowel in indicative present/past and subjunctive moods; with no linking vowel in conditional mood).

      ‎tud (“to know”) → ‎tudom, tudtam, tudjam, tudnám (“I know / knew / should know / would know it”)

      ‎kér (“to ask [for sth]”) → ‎kérem, kértem, kérjem, kérném (“I ask / asked / should ask / would ask for it”)

   2. Indefinite forms of -ik verbs.

      ‎alszik (“to sleep”) + ‎-m → ‎alszom (“I sleep”)

   4. Forming conjugated infinitives (here: “for me to do something”).

      ‎tanulni (“to study”) + ‎-m → ‎tanulnom kell (“I need to study”, literally “for_me_to_study is_necessary”)

      Csak kérnem kell. ― All I have to do is ask [for it]. (literally, “only for_me_to_ask is_necessary”)

   5. Declined and postpositional forms of the first-person personal pronoun én (“I”).

      ‎-ban/-ben (“in”) + ‎-m → ‎bennem (“in me”)

      ‎elé (“in front of”) + ‎-m → ‎elém (“in front of me”)

• (possessive suffix) Variants:

  -m is added to words ending in a vowel. Final -a changes to -á-. Final -e changes to -é-.

  ‎hajó (“boat”) + ‎-m → ‎a hajóm (“my boat”)

  ‎kocsi (“car”) + ‎-m → ‎a kocsim (“my car”)

  ‎palota (“palace”) + ‎-m → ‎a palotám (“my palace”)

  ‎érme (“coin”) + ‎-m → ‎az érmém (“my coin”)

  -am is added to some back-vowel words ending in a consonant

  ‎ház (“house”) + ‎-am → ‎a házam (“my house”)

  -om is added to the other back-vowel words ending in a consonant

  ‎kor (“age”) + ‎-om → ‎a korom (“my age”)

  -em is added to unrounded (and some rounded) front-vowel words ending in a consonant

  ‎kert (“garden”) + ‎-em → ‎a kertem (“my garden”)

  ‎fül (“ear”) + ‎-em → ‎a fülem (“my ear”)

  -öm is added to most rounded front-vowel words ending in a consonant

  ‎öröm (“joy”) + ‎-öm → ‎az örömöm (“my joy”)

It can be traced back to the Proto-Uralic *-m.^[1]

-m

1. (noun-forming suffix, obsolete) Added to a verb (or rarely to a noun) to form a noun. No longer productive in this sense.

   öröm, álom, folyam

   alom, orom, hím

2. (frequentative verb-forming suffix, obsolete) No longer productive in this sense.

   élemedett (“elderly”)

• Category:Hungarian noun forms
• Appendix:Hungarian possessive suffixes

-m

1. alternative form of -mo (used before vowels and suffixes -en and -an)

• em
• im

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [mʲ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /-mʲ/
• Bender phonemes: {-m}

-m

1. and

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

-m

1. first-person singular suffix

   têm ('I come.')

   çûm ('I went.')

• -im (after a consonant)

From Proto-Celtic *-mus.^[1]

-m m

1. Forms verbal nouns of A III (hiatus) verbs

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /-m/

-m

1. Plural suffix (with m-declension nouns)

• Henrik Liljegren, Naseem Haider (2011) “-m”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎^[1], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /m/
• Rhymes: -m
• Syllabification: [please specify syllabification manually]

From earlier -śm, a contraction of Old Polish jeśm, from Proto-Slavic *esmь.

-m

1. past-tense first-person singular suffix

   ‎robić + ‎-m → ‎robiłem

   ‎oglądać + ‎-m → ‎oglądałem

• -em (after a consonant)

Inherited from Old Polish -m, from Proto-Slavic [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European [Term?].

-m

1. first-person singular suffix

   ‎oglądać + ‎-m → ‎oglądam

• -m in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• -mi (after consonants)
• -n (Cuzco-Collao)

• IPA^(key): /-m/
  • (Ayacucho) IPA^(key): [-m]
  • (Cuzco-Collao) IPA^(key): [-ŋ]

-m

1. Evidential suffix, first-hand information. Indicates that the speaker has direct evidence/knowledge of some fact, having experienced it, seen it, heard it, etc.

   Ñuqa runa simitam rimani. Qusqumantam kani.

   I speak Quechua. I am from Cuzco.

   Allqukunaqa chawa aychatam mikunku.

   Dogs eat raw meat.

2. Used to mark an open-ended question; less formal than -taq.

   Maymantam kanki?

   Where are you from?

• -s, -si
• -ch, -chá

-m

1. First-person singular possessive suffix denoting singular possession in words ending in a vowel.

   kedi - kedim

   cat - my cat

• If the noun ends in a consonant, it may be "-im", "-ım", "-um" and "-üm"

  kalem - kalemim

  takım - takımım

  mum - mumum

  göz - gözüm

• Must be used with an apostrophe if appended to a proper noun.

  Utku - Utku'm

-m

1. alternate form of first-person singular simple present tense copula conjugation suffix -um used after informal present continuous suffix -iyo

   git - gidiyom

   go - I am going

-m (Cyrillic spelling -м)

1. Form of -im after a vowel.

   Bu ruchkam.

   This is my ball pen.