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) and cognates listed therein.

• (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.

The glyph does double duty in some writings of this word, serving simultaneously as a determinative and as a phonetic mw.

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ym  

ym	ymw	ywm	ym	ywm	ynm	ymw	ym
				[Late Period]

• Demotic: ym
  • Akhmimic Coptic: ⲓⲁⲙ (iam)
  • Bohairic Coptic: ⲓⲟⲙ (iom)
    • →⇒ Arabic: الفَيُّوم (al-fayyūm)
      • → English: Fayum, Faiyum, Fayyum
  • Fayyumic Coptic: ⲓⲁⲙ (iam)
  • Sahidic Coptic: ⲉⲓⲟⲙ (eiom)

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], 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