mämmi

Borrowed from Finnish mämmi, from Proto-Finnic *mämmi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmæ.mi/, enPR: mă′-mē
  • (æsh raising) IPA^(key): /ˈmeə̯.mi/
• Homophone: mammy

mämmi (uncountable)

1. A traditional Finnish Easter dessert made from rye flour, malted rye, molasses and Seville orange zest.

From Proto-Finnic *mämmi. Related to Estonian mämm (“mämmi; badly cooked bread”), Ingrian mämmi (“oven-heated rye and malt gruel”), Karelian mämmi (“a type of sweetened food made of rye flour and malt”), Votic mämmi (“oven-heated rye malt gruel; berry porridge”) and more distantly to Northern Sami meađmma (“raw (of bread)”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmæmːi/, [ˈmæmːi]
• Rhymes: -æmːi
• Syllabification^(key): mäm‧mi
• Hyphenation^(key): mäm‧mi

mämmi

1. mämmi

• → Swedish: memma

• “mämmi”, 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 3 July 2023