imma

imma

1. Alternative letter-case form of Imma.
   • 2022 November 7, Tony Lopez, quoting Alexander Pigee, “He nearly burnt down Roseville Galleria 12 years ago and now he's telling his story”, in CBS News‎^[1]:

     "So I'm like, if you guys don't want to pay attention to me, then imma make you pay attention to me."

• Imam, Mami, imam, maim, mami

imma

1. romanization of 𐌹𐌼𐌼𐌰

From Arabic أَمَّا (ʔammā, “as for, as regards, but”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪm.ma/

imma

1. but

   Synonyms: iżda, (colloquial) però

   • 2018, Antoinette Borg, Amina, Merlin Publishers, →ISBN:

     “IMMA … mhux se teħlisha ħafif għal li għamilt, Amina. Ma nistax nibqa’ nwissik biss u int tibqa’ tagħmel ta’ rasek. Dawn il-jumejn, illum u għada, se tqattagħhom f’kamra waħdek, f’dan is-sular. Mhux se tattendi lezzjonijiet —”

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2019, Kristina Borg, Imkejjen u Rkejjen, Ede Books, →ISBN, page 18:

     Dal-lejl ħlomt ħolma.
     Waħda ħelwa, imma stramba.
     Fil-verità, waħda li qed noħlom ta’ spiss.

     Last night I had a dream.
     A pleasant dream, but strange.
     Actually, it's a recurring dream.

From imb (“around”).

imma (triggers eclipsis)

1. reciprocal verbal particle followed by dependent form of verb: each other

   ‎imma (“each other”) + ‎ad·ciat (“they look”) → ‎imma·aiccet (“they look at each other”) (forms of ad·cí (“to see”))

Univerbation of imb (“around”) +‎ a (“his/her/its/their”)

• imme

imma (‘his’ and ‘its’ trigger lenition, ‘her’ triggers /h/-prothesis, ‘their’ triggers eclipsis)

1. around his/her/its/their
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 23^b10

     Hó goistiu .i. do·bert goiste imma brágait fadesin ɔid·marb, húare nád ndigni Abisolón a chomairli.

     By a noose, i.e. he put a noose around his own neck so that it killed him, because Absalom did not follow his advice.

     (literally, “do his advice”)

Historically in the form em and im. The form em is from Old Swedish ēmber, from Old Norse eimr. The form im is either derived from em, or from Old Norse ím. From Proto-Germanic *aimaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ews-.

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imma c

1. steam, vapour
2. condensation, misting (on windows etc)

• immig

imma (present immar, preterite immade, supine immat, imperative imma)

1. mist (to form mist or to cover with mist)

• imma igen

• imma in Svensk ordbok.
• imma in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

• imam, mima