# Mimation > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Mimation > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Mimation.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimation > Source revision: 1288841790 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Feature in some Semitic languages}} '''Mimation''' ({{langx|ar|تَمْيِيم}}, ''{{Transliteration|ar|ALA|tamyīm}}'') is the phenomenon of a suffixed ''{{Transliteration|sem|-m}}''  (the letter [mem](/source/mem) in many Semitic [abjad](/source/abjad)s) which occurs in some [Semitic language](/source/Semitic_language)s. This occurs in [Akkadian](/source/Akkadian_language) in singular nouns.[http://www.sron.nl/~jheise/akkadian/words.html#mimmation Akkadian grammar: morphology] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090705085517/http://www.sron.nl/~jheise/akkadian/words.html|date=2009-07-05}}, [http://www.sron.nl/~jheise/akkadian/noun.html#case] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081216102305/http://www.sron.nl/~jheise/akkadian/noun.html#case|date=2008-12-16}} Akkadian grammar: Noun declension It was also present in the [Proto-Semitic language](/source/Proto-Semitic_language). It is retained in the plural and dual forms in [Hebrew](/source/Hebrew_language). It corresponds to the letter [nun](/source/Nun_(letter)) (-n) in [Classical Arabic](/source/Classical_Arabic) and is retained in the singular ([nunation](/source/nunation)), dual, and plural. == See also == * [Nunation](/source/Nunation) == References == {{reflist}} Category:Semitic linguistics {{Ling-stub}} {{Semitic-lang-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Mimation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimation) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimation?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.