# mám
## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmaːm]

### Verb

mám
* first-person singular present indicative of mít

## Macanese
### Etymology

From Portuguese mão, with influence from Cantonese 手 (sau$^2$).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maŋ/

### Noun

mám
* (anatomy) hand
    Coordinate term: pê (“foot”)
    pê-mám ― feet and hands
    mám-fichado ― miserly, tight-fisted (literally, “hand closed”)
    mám tánto ― person who interferes with things that are not their responsibility (literally, “much hand”)
    mám cumprido ― thief; sticky-fingered, prone to stealing (literally, “long hand”)
    mám di fada ― nimble-fingered (literally, “hand of fairy”)
    mám pa trás ― idle-handed; lazy person (literally, “hand at back”)
    pegâ mám andâ rua ― to hold hands walking the streets
    cai pê-mám ― to lose one's temper; to become disoriented (literally, “to fall feet-hands”)
    mám-lárgo ― generous (literally, “big hand”)
    mám-macaco ― fidgety (literally, “monkey hand”)
    mám-fêde ― someone with a dirty mind (literally, “stinky hand”)
    mám-cutí ― doorknob (literally, “hit hand”)
* (anatomy) arm
    pê-mám ― legs and arms

#### Usage notes

* mám tánto is a calque of Cantonese 多手 (do$^1$ sau$^2$).

#### Derived terms

* dále dôs mám
* mám-di-buda
* virâ mám (“in the blink of an eye”, literally “turn hand”)

### References

* https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#m

## Old Irish
### Alternative forms

* maám, máam

### Etymology

Uncertain. Has been connected to Proto-Germanic *makaz (“fit, suitable”), though this is dubious.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmaːm]

### Noun

mám m (genitive máma)
* yoke

#### Inflection

Masculine u-stem :
| | Singular | Dual | Plural |
| Nominative | mám | mám$^L$ | mámae |
| Vocative | mám | mám$^L$ | mámu |
| Accusative | mám$^N$ | mám$^L$ | mámu |
| Genitive | mámo$^H$, máma$^H$ | mámo, máma | mámae$^N$ |
| Dative | mám$^L$ | mámaib | mámaib |
| Initial mutations of a following adjective: $^H$ = triggers aspiration $^L$ = triggers lenition $^N$ = triggers nasalization ||||

#### Quotations

* c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 18$^c$6
    Is machthad limm a threte do·rérachtid máam fírinne et soscéli; .i. i⟨s⟩ súaignid nírubtar gaítha for comairli. Is dían do·rréractid maám ind ṡoscéli.I marvel how quickly you pl have abandoned the yoke of righteousness and [the] gospel; i.e. it is clear that your counsels have not been wise. It is swiftly that you have abandoned the yoke of the gospel.(literally, “it is a wonder to me its quickness that…”)

#### Derived terms

* fo·ammámaigedar

#### Descendants

* Middle Irish: mám
** Irish: mám

### References

* ↑ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*maka-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 350

### Further reading

* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mám”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## Wastek
### Noun

mám
* grandfather

### References

* wordlist