ammo
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Englisch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Clipping of ammunition + -o.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈæ.moʊ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -æməʊ
Nomen
[edit]ammo (usually uncountable, plural ammos)
- (informal) Ammunition.
- 1917, Arthur Guy Empey, “Lewis Gun”, in Over the Top, G. P. Putnam's, page 297:
- Under fire when this magazine is emptied you shout for “ammo” but perhaps No. 2, the ammo carrier, is lying in the rear with a bullet through his napper. Then it's “napoo-fini” (Tommy's French) for Mr. Lewis.
- 2011, Mark Brannon, Tom Hanrahan, Shooting Sporting Clays, page 39:
- As with handguns and rifles, some ammos are more accurate than others.
- (slang, games, gambling, uncommon) Chips or money, usually at a casino.
Derived terms
[edit]Verb
[edit]ammo (third-person singular simple present ammos, present participle ammoing, simple past and past participle ammoed)
- (transitive, informal) To load up on ammunition.
- Synonym: ammo up
- 2001, H. Beam Piper, Uller Uprising:
- "Harry and Hassan are getting the car re-ammoed; they dropped me off here.
Further reading
[edit]- “ammo n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
Anagrams
[edit]Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Finnic *ammo, from Proto-Uralic *aŋmɜ-. Cognate to Ingrian ammillaa, Votic ammulla, Estonian ammuli, Estonian ammu, Livonian amtlõ (“to yawn”), Skolt Sami ämmsõddâd (“to yawn”), Western Mari [script needed] (omeštaš, “to talk or move while in sleep or to talk unclearly”), Southern Selkup [script needed] (āmmu-, “yawnable, something that makes one to yawn”) (Ket), Kamassian [script needed] (a’moi-, “yawnable, something that makes one to yawn”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Nomen
[edit]- something that widens on a mouth section, like a mouth or a cavity
Declension
[edit]Inflection of ammo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | ammo | ammot | |
genitive | ammon | ammojen | |
partitive | ammoa | ammoja | |
illative | ammoon | ammoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | ammo | ammot | |
accusative | nom. | ammo | ammot |
gen. | ammon | ||
genitive | ammon | ammojen | |
partitive | ammoa | ammoja | |
inessive | ammossa | ammoissa | |
elative | ammosta | ammoista | |
illative | ammoon | ammoihin | |
adessive | ammolla | ammoilla | |
ablative | ammolta | ammoilta | |
allative | ammolle | ammoille | |
essive | ammona | ammoina | |
translative | ammoksi | ammoiksi | |
abessive | ammotta | ammoitta | |
instructive | — | ammoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Junttila, Santeri, Kallio, Petri, Holopainen, Sampsa, Kuokkala, Juha, Pystynen, Juho, editors (2020–), “ammo”, in Suomen vanhimman sanaston etymologinen verkkosanakirja[1] (in Finnish), retrieved 2024-01-01
- “ammuli”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
- Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words][2] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources; this source is labeled "SSA 1992–2000"), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN
- Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages[3], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
Uzbek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic أَمَّا (ʔammā, “as for”).
Conjunction
[edit]ammo
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