ym

See also: Ym, ym., and ym-

Translingual

Symbol

ym

2. (metrology) Symbol for yoctometre (yoctometer), an SI unit of length equal to 10⁻²⁴ metres (meters).

Egyptian

Etymology

Borrowed from Northwest Semitic. Compare Hebrew יָם (yām), Arabic يَمٌّ (yamm) and cognates listed at that entry.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /iːm/
  • Conventional anglicization: ym

Noun

 m

1. sea, lake [since the 18th Dynasty]

Usage notes

Most commonly used in reference to the Mediterranean Sea, but also applied to Lake Moeris and other smaller bodies of water.

The glyph does double duty in some writings of this word, serving simultaneously as a determinative and as a phonetic mw.

Inflection

Declension of ym (masculine)

singular	ym
dual	ymwj
plural	ymw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ym  

ymw	ymw	ymw	ywm	ym	ym	ym	ynm
[18th Dynasty]	[18th Dynasty]	[18th Dynasty]	[18th Dynasty]	[19th Dynasty]	[19th Dynasty]	[19th Dynasty]	[19th Dynasty]

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ym  

ym	ym	ym	ywm	ywm
[20th Dynasty]	[20th Dynasty]	[20th Dynasty]	[20th to 21st Dynasty]	[Late Period]

Descendants

• Demotic: ym
  • Akhmimic Coptic: ⲉⲓⲁⲙ (eiam), ⲓⲁⲙ (iam)
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲓⲟⲙ (iom)
    • →⇒ Arabic: الفَيُّوم (al-fayyūm)
      • → English: Fayum, Faiyum, Fayyum
  • Fayyumic Coptic: ⲓⲁⲙ (iam)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲉⲓⲟⲙ (eiom), ⲓⲟⲙ (iom)

References

• “ym (lemma ID 24730)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
• Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926), Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 78.11
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962), A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 18
• Hoch, James E. (1994), Semitic Words in Egyptian Texts of the New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period, Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, pages 52–53

Icelandic

Verb

ym (weak)

1. first-person singular present indicative of ymja
2. second-person singular imperative of ymja

Middle English

Pronoun

ym

1. alternative form of him (“him”)

Welsh

Preposition

ym

1. alternative form of yn (“in”) used before m

   ym Mangor ― in Bangor

   ym Mhontypridd ― in Pontypridd