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- ma (マ) - to roast, to broil
- ma (マ) - to swim
- mak (マㇰ) - how (cf. Middle Korean 매 may > Modern Korean 왜 "why; how")
- makiri (マキリ) - knife
- mame (マメ) - bean or pea, pulses, legumes (cf. Japanese mame 'bean, pea, legumes')
- mata （マタ） - winter (also known as the "men's season" for the fact that it is a good time of year for men to hunt for furs)
- matanoski （マタノシキ） - midwinter
- matapa (マタパ) - wintertime, the winter season
- mat (マッ) - wife; woman; female (explicitly possessed form マチ maci or マチヒ macihi)
- matne (マッネ) - female
- matak (マタㇰ) - younger sister (from an elder sister's point of view)
- a-mataki (アマタキ) (Classical), ku-mataki (クマタキ) (Colloquial), ku-kor matak (クコㇿ マタㇰ) - my younger sister (said by an elder sister)
- matkaci (マッカチ) - girl (also マチカチ macikaci in some dialects; < Ainu mat "female" + Ainu hekaci ~ ekaci "child, son")
- matkarku (マッカㇻク) - niece
- matmit (マッミッ) - granddaughter
- mawsok (マゥソㇰ) - to yawn
- me (メ)
- me'an (メアン) - to be cold (as the weather)
- me'ekot (メエコッ) - to freeze to death; to starve due to frigid weather
- mek (メㇰ) - to bark (ミㇰ mik in some dialects)
- mem (メム) - spring, pool, a place where clear water wells up
- menoko (メノコ) - woman; young woman; daughter (cf. Japanese menoko 'woman; girl')
- mi (ミ) - to put on (clothes), to wear on the body
- amip (アミㇷ゚) - clothes, clothing (literally, "that which is worn on the body")
- mici (ミチ) - father (in some Ainu dialects, mici is formal and means something like "dead father" or "ancestor"; such dialects typically use aca in the regular meaning of "father")
- mim - meat (of fish), flesh (of fish)
- mina (ミナ) - to laugh
- mit - grandchild (retained only in Sakhalin and Kuril Ainu; Hokkaido Ainu dialects universally use the derived form, mitpo, or one of the latter's variants)
- mitpo - grandchild (also mippo or nitpo)
- mo (モ)
- mokor (モコㇿ) - to sleep
- mono (モノ) - quietly
- mom (モㇺ) - to float; to flow (as a river, etc.)
- mori (モリ) - small hill, hillock, slope (cf. Japanese mori "forest; Shinto shrine, sacred grove, holy place; hill")
- mosir (モシㇼ) - island; land; country, territory; world
- moy (モィ) - eddy, whirlpool; inlet, bay
- moyo (モヨ) - few, little
- moyuk (モユㇰ) - tanuki
- mukar (ムカㇻ) - ax (cf. Ainu makiri "knife," Japanese masakari "broadax")
- mukkuri (ムックリ) - traditional Ainu Jew's harp (also ムックㇽ mukkur, ムフクン muhkun, or ムック mukku depending on the dialect)
- mun (ムン) - grass, weed, (useless) plant; trash, rubbish (cf. Japanese *munta or *muna > muda "useless, ineffectual; waste, wasteful, wastefulness" and Japanese munashi- "to be (in) vain, to be futile")
- munin (ムニン) - to rot, to decay; to be rotten
- muy (ムィ) - winnow (cf. Japanese mi "winnow" < Old Japanese mï < *mui)
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