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語源 1

Contraction of am.

動詞

’m (clitic)

1. Am, used especially in I'm.

   What'm I gon' do?

   • 2008, Elizabeth George, Playing for the Ashes, Bantam, →ISBN, page 158:

     “So how'm I not good?”

2. (dialect) Various forms of be.
   • 1874, Frances Mary Peard, Thorpe Regis:

     You'm no better than a baby when they've clacketed at ye for an hour or two without a word of sense from beginnin' to end.

   • 1962, John Le Carre, A Murder of Quality:

     "He'm a bad one. Ooh, he'm a bad one, Mister," and she laughed softly. "I seed 'im flying, riding on the wind," she laughed again, "and the moon be'ind 'im, lightin' up the way. They'm close as sisters, moon and Devil."

   • 2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, page 180:

     “Ah, it's a wonder we’m got two sticks to us name, with all that plunder what youm 'ad already.”

関連する語

参考

• ’d
• ’ll
• ’re
• ’s (third person)
• ’ve

語源 2

代名詞

'm

1. Alternative form of 'em.
   • 1967-1969, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure

     I picked up two stones and threw ’m in the air, heard ’m drop

語源 3

Contraction of madam/ma'am. Typologically compare Russian -с (-s).

名詞

’m

1. Represents the word madam or ma'am when used as a formal address of a female; as in yes'm and no'm.

発音

• (letter name): IPA: /ɛm/
  • 韻: -ɛm
• (phoneme): IPA: /m/

文字

m (lower case, upper case M, plural ms or m's)

1. The thirteenth letter of the English alphabet, called em and written in the Latin script.

派生語

参考

• (Latin-script letters) letter; A a, B b, C c, D d, E e, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u, V v, W w, X x, Y y, Z z

数

m (lower case, upper case M, plural ms or m's)

1. The thirteenth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called em and written in the Latin script.

語源 2

Abbreviations.

形容詞

m

1. (grammar) Abbreviation of masculine.

名詞

m (plural ms)

1. Abbreviation of meter.
2. Abbreviation of mile.
3. Abbreviation of month.
4. Abbreviation of minute.
   • 1908, Francis Ernest Lloyd, The Physiology of Stomata, Carnegie Institution of Washington, page 83:

     Another instance: 228 p. m., 10 micra; 308 p. m., 0 micra; irrigated with water: 309 p. m., 4 micra.

5. Abbreviation of million.
   • 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport‎:

     The final started with £85m worth of striking talent on the bench as Carroll was a Liverpool substitute and Chelsea's Fernando Torres missed out on a starting place against his former club.

6. Abbreviation of minim (“unit of volume”).
7. (music) Abbreviation of measure.
8. (obsolete) thousand
   • 1798 Letter from William Short to Thomas Jefferson:

     Having made a divorce with politics as I have already mentioned I have only to trouble you on my personal affairs ... —The principle & most pressing is that of the 9. m. dollars—

動詞

m

1. (knitting) Abbreviation of make.
   • 2011, Kristi Porter, Knitting Patterns For Dummies, page 232:

     Row 1 (RS): Kfb, knit to marker A, slip marker A, knit to marker B (there are no sts to knit between markers A and B in Row 1), m1, slip marker B, k1, slip marker B, m1, […]

動詞

m

1. (text messaging) Abbreviation of am.
   • 2011 January, Smita Kaushik, Utkarsh Roy, Let's Get Committed…, New Delhi: Mahaveer Publishers, →ISBN, page 64:

     I mean everything can’t b said directly. But m trying now just 4 u.

参考

• M

派生語

関連する語

参考

• o-
• p-

名詞

m. (plural ms.)

1. Alternative form of m (abbreviation of mile, etc.)
   • 1825, Benjamin Pitts Capper, A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom, page 217:

     Clunbury, a hamlet and chapelry to the par. of the same name, hund. of Purslow, Salop. 5 m. from Bishop's Castle, and 153 from London; cont. 63 ho. and 359 inhab.