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mikMeeee
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I wonder what "nóm" means at the public transport stops then. I always thought "3 nóm" would mean 3 minutes, but there is a missing "i" then...
It's an abbreviation - it doesn't need to contain that i, any more than it needs to contain the éad. They could have abbreviated it to "nmd", or even "nm" or "nd", but they had room for 3 letters, and nóm provides a better indication of what the abbreviated word was, because of the long vowel.
The fact that you assumed that it means "minute" demonstrates that their choice of abbreviation works.