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amë

Pronunciation: /ämə/

“amë” is an Albanian word. Its 8 meanings in English:

noun

  1. mother
  2. taste, flavor; scent, fragrance
  3. unpleasant smell, odour
  4. spring, source of a spring, headwater; stream bed
  5. stub of a ticket, check, invoice, or coupon
  6. stick used as a prop for the roof
  7. river channel, riverbed
  8. silt, dregs

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *am(m)ā, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₂em(m)-h₂ (compare Ancient Greek ἀμμά (ammá), Latin amma, Old High German amma) or an independently formed, sound-symbolic nursery word. Cf. also archaic Romanian îmă.

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