ym

ym

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

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

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

 m

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

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

• 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)

• “ym (lemma ID 24730)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], 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^[2], 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

ym (weak)

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

ym

1. alternative form of him (“him”)

ym

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

   ym Mangor ― in Bangor

   ym Mhontypridd ― in Pontypridd