mamo
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English
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Noun
mamo (plural mamos)
- Either of two extinct species of Hawaiian honeycreepers of the genus Drepanis.
- 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, published 2003, page 421:
- In 1907, when a well-known collector named Alanson Bryan realised that he had shot the last three specimens of black mamos, a species of forest bird that had only been discovered the previous decade, he noted that the news filled him with ‘joy’.
- 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 76:
- The plaintive whistle of the Hawai‘i mamo, a shy bird then found only on Hawai‘i Island, was heard only rarely by the mid-1880s, as cattle ranching and plantations altered the forest canopies where this nectar-loving finch once thrived.
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Amaimon
Noun
mamo
Further reading
- Pat Lillie, Amaimon Organised Phonology Data (2001)
Catalan
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mamo
Esperanto
Etymology
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mamo (accusative singular mamon, plural mamoj, accusative plural mamojn)
Derived terms
- grandmama (“big-breasted”)
- mamektomio (“mastectomy, mammectomy”)
- mamnutri, mamsuĉigi (“to breastfeed, nurse”)
- mamnutristino (“wet nurse”)
- mampinto (“nipple”)
- mamsuĉi (“to suckle”)
- mamulo (“mammal”)
- mamzono (“bra”)
- nudmama (“bare-breasted, topless”)
Galician
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mamo
Ido
Etymology
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mamo (plural mami)
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Italian
Etymology
Akin to mammolo.
Pronunciation
Noun
mamo m (plural mami)
- (theater) a comedic character type representing a young boy who is inexperienced and naive, and yet wishes to come off as clever and experienced
Further reading
- mamo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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Polish
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mamo
Portuguese
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mamo
Spanish
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mamo
West Makian
Etymology
If related to mamu (“mother”), then compare Ternate tuguhera.
Pronunciation
Noun
mamo
References
- Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[1], Pacific linguistics
Yanomam
Etymology
Noun
mamo (clitic meronym; singulative mamo, dual mamokipë, definite plural mamokɨ, indefinite plural mamopë)
References
- Perri Ferreira, Helder (2017) Yanomama Clause Structure[2], volume 1, Utrecht: LOT, →ISBN, page 116
Yanomamö
Etymology
Noun
mamo (plural mamoku)
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