amang

Cebuano

Noun

amang

1. a person who cannot speak

Adjective

amang

1. mute

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *amaŋ amaŋ (“dare to do something”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /amaŋ/
• Rhymes: -amaŋ, -maŋ, -aŋ

Noun

amang (plural amang-amang, informal 1st possessive amangku, 2nd possessive amangmu, 3rd possessive amangnya)

1. (archaic) defiance

Further reading

• Wilkinson, Richard James. An Abridged Malay-English Dictionary. Macmillan. 1965.

Old English

Etymology

Abbreviation of onġemang

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑ.mɑnɡ/, [ˈɑ.mɑŋɡ]

Preposition

amang

1. among

Descendants

• Middle English: among, amang, amonkes, omang; mang, mong
  • English: among
  • Geordie English: amang
  • Scots: amang
  • Yola: amang, mang (aphetic)

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English among, from Old English onġemang.

Preposition

amang

1. among

Sundanese

Noun

amang

1. uncle (brother (or brother-in-law) of someone’s parent)

Yola

Alternative forms

• mang (aphetic)

Etymology

From Middle English amang, mang, from Old English onġemang.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈmɔːn/, (aphetic) /mɔːn/

Preposition

amang

1. among
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 56:

     Blessed yarth amang meyen.

     Blessed art thou amongst women.

   • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 93:

     Aar was pizzeen, an beanès, an barich amang.

     There were pease and beans, and barley-mung.

   • 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 100:

     Amang wefty jhemes, 'cha jeist ee-rid apan.

     Among cobwebby scraps, I have just alighted on.

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 22