Figure Two: "Representative selection of proto-Sinaitic characters with comparison to Egyptian hieroglyphs", (p. Semitic Mem is most likely derived from a " Proto-Sinaitic" ( Bronze Age) adoption of the "water" ideogram in Egyptian writing. Figure Four: "Representative selection of later proto-Canaanite letters with comparison to early proto-Canaanite and proto-Sinaitic signs" (p. Collins English Dictionary: m- Collins English Dictionary: M'- Collins English Dictionary: 'm American English Dictionary (1): M¹ American English Dictionary (1): M² American English Dictionary (1): m¹ American English Dictionary (1): m² American English Dictionary (1): M'- American English Dictionary (1): m- American English Dictionary (1): -'m American English Dictionary (2): m¹ American English Dictionary (2): m² American English Dictionary (2): M¹ American English Dictionary (2): M² American English Dictionary (2): M American English Dictionary (2): m. The letter ⟨m⟩ represents the bilabial nasal consonant sound [ m] in the orthography of Latin as well as in that of many modern languages, and also in the International Phonetic Alphabet.

The Egyptian sign had the acrophonic value /n/, from the Egyptian word for "water", nt; the adoption as the Semitic letter for /m/ was presumably also on acrophonic grounds, from the Semitic word for "water", *mā(y)-. M, or m, is the thirteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. See also: Goldwasser (2010), following Albright (1966), "Schematic Table of Proto-Sinaitic Characters" ( fig. M" Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993); "em," op. In typography, an em dash is a punctuation symbol whose width is equal to that of a capital letter M.

Also for encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 and Macintosh families of encodings.

Figure Three: "Chart of all early proto-Canaanite letters with comparison to proto-Sinaitic signs" (p. In Washo, lower-case ⟨m⟩ represents a typical em sound, while upper-case ⟨M⟩ represents a voiceless em sound. Learner's Dictionary: M Learner's Dictionary: -'m Collins English Dictionary: m¹ Collins English Dictionary: m² Collins English Dictionary: M Collins English Dictionary: m. In English, the Oxford English Dictionary (first edition) says that ⟨m⟩ is sometimes a vowel, in words like spasm and in the suffix -ism.