umとは

代名詞

'um

1. (slang) an unstressed form of them
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

     They call themselves gentlemen, I warrant you; but, as my first husband used to say, they should remember it is we that pay them. And to be sure it is very hard upon us to be obliged to pay them, and to keep 'um too, as we publicans are.

同意語

• 'em

派生語

• no-see-um

アナグラム

• mu , Mu, MU

語源 1

From the homographic case endings of the nominative, accusative, and vocative forms of numerous neuter Latin second declension nouns.

接尾辞

-um (複数形 -a)

1. Denotes singular grammatical number.
2. (chemistry) Forms the ends of the names of certain elements (such as molybdenum かつ platinum).

使用する際の注意点

• The vast majority of words which feature this suffix also have standard -ums plurals formed by suffixation with the -s plural suffix. However, in such situations, the -s suffix morphologically is additional to and separate from the -um suffix.

派生語

参考

語源 2

Possibly from 'em.

接尾辞

-um

1. Denotes transitive verbs in the trade pidgins used between English-speakers and indigenous populations; used derogatorily by extension in English by addition to any verb, transitive or not.
   • 1871, Mrs. Edward Millett, An Australian parsonage; or, The settler and the savage in Western Australia, p. 129:

     Having finished her return of deaths, she went on to say "Black fellow sick—white lady fowl sendum—white lady kangaroo sendum—master all self eatum—" but here she paused and made an exception in favour of the matron, expressed by the words " Missis not eatum—missis good fellow."

   • 1896, F J Stimsom, King Noanett: A Story of Old Virginia and the Massachusetts Bay, p. 254:

     "Givum dinner; smokum pipe," was all that we could get out of Quatchett.

アナグラム

• -mu-, MU, Mu, mu

Latin

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /um/, [ũ]

接尾辞

-um

1. nominative neuter singular of -us
2. accusative masculine singular of -us
3. accusative neuter singular of -us
4. vocative neuter singular of -us

参考

• MUH
• MNH

アナグラム

• mu , Mu, MU

語源

From Middle English um-, umbe-, embe-, from 古期英語 ymb-, ymbe- (“around”), from Proto-Germanic *umbi (“around, about, by, near”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi (“round about, around”). Cognate with Dutch om- (“around”), German um- (“around”), Latin amb- (“around, about”), Latin ambi- (“both”), Ancient Greek ἀμφί (amphí, “around, about”), Sanskrit अभि (abhi, “against, about”). More at umbe.

接頭辞

um-

1. (no longer productive, obsolete outside dialects, chiefly Scotland) 接頭辞 meaning around, about.

派生語

アナグラム

• -mu-, MU, Mu, mu