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English word origin

Etymology of HM

(Pokémon): Phono-semantic matching of Japanese ひでんマシン (Hiden Mashin, “Secret Machine”).

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The source etymologies

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The source reports below are imported and unreviewed by *SET-U. Separate numbered origins and differing source variants are preserved; agreement within this extraction is not independent corroboration.

Unnumbered source etymology

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noun

Initialism of Home Minister. · Abbreviation of hospital corpsman. · Initialism of heavy metal. · Initialism of hidden machine

name

Initialism of Hindley-Milner. · Initialism of Hannah Montana, an American teen sitcom that aired from 2006 to 2011.

pron

Initialism of His Majesty (the title of a king). · Initialism of Her Majesty (the title of a queen).

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

(Pokémon): Phono-semantic matching of Japanese ひでんマシン (Hiden Mashin, “Secret Machine”).

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Imported from Wiktionary contributors; extracted by Tatu Ylonen / Wiktextract / Kaikki.org. Selected fields are reformatted and grouped; wording, source identity and etymology sections are retained. CC-BY-SA-4.0 applies to the imported source material.

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