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| Kitty Triglot Groupie Germany Joined 6558 days ago 43 posts - 45 votes Studies: Spanish, German*, English, French Studies: Latin | Message 33 of 39 12 December 2006 at 12:58pm | IP Logged |
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i can only add that the "m" sound is something similar to sighing and so much i read that is a thing all babies can do very easily, so if all babies in world wanna express their feeling about the person who cares most - they sigh and this consists a "m" sound mostly
sadly, I don't know the link to it anymore but it was in an medicl article EDIT: btw that often a vocal like I or A or O/U is in it, remember me on pets Owners of dogs & cats & monkeys are often told to give them names ending with i or a and havng a o or u in it, they say that is something the pet can link to, cause it's a natural sound Edited by Kitty on 12 December 2006 at 1:01pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Ungungai Diglot Newbie Canada Joined 5820 days ago 12 posts - 12 votes Speaks: Sign Language, Greenlandic* | Message 34 of 39 18 December 2008 at 2:55am | IP Logged |
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Aana (Yupik) Aaka (Inupiaq) Amaamak (Inuvialuktun) Anaana (General Inuits Dialect) Anaanaq (Kalaallisut) Annivik (East Greenlandic) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Alkeides Senior Member Bhutan Joined 6148 days ago 636 posts - 644 votes  | Message 35 of 39 18 December 2008 at 1:31pm | IP Logged |
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I think I read somewhere that in Georgian "papa" actually meant mother.
In modern Japanese はは (haha) is the humble form for the word "mother" but following the sound changes, in middle Japanese it was more like [φaφa] and in old Japanese [papa]. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| izan Bilingual Tetraglot Newbie Spain letmewritealittlebit Joined 5869 days ago 20 posts - 34 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, Basque*, EnglishC1, FrenchC1 Studies: German | Message 36 of 39 19 December 2008 at 9:33am | IP Logged |
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In Basque: ama. (See, Basque is not that hard... :D )
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| J-Learner Senior Member Australia Joined 6030 days ago 556 posts - 636 votes Studies: Yiddish, English* Studies: Dutch | Message 37 of 39 27 December 2008 at 9:10pm | IP Logged |
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Hebrew:
em = mother av = father From Aramcic it uses: ima = mummy aba = daddy These words actually mean the-father and the-mother in Aramaic so 'the' can't be used for them. You must instead use ha-em = the mother and ha-av = the-father. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sennin Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 6034 days ago 1457 posts - 1759 votes 5 sounds | Message 38 of 39 28 December 2008 at 3:16am | IP Logged |
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Майка /maika/, Мама /mama/, Мамо /mamo/ - mother/mom
Отец /otec/, Баща /bashta/, Татко /tatko/, Тати /tati/ - father/dad ( "Отец" is hardly ever used, save for formal speeches ) Баба /baba/ - grandmother Прабаба /prababa/ - great-grandmother Пра-прабаба ... Пра-пра-прабаба .... :) Дядо /diado/ - grandfather Edited by Sennin on 28 December 2008 at 3:22am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Woodpecker Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5811 days ago 351 posts - 590 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), Arabic (Egyptian) Studies: Arabic (classical) | Message 39 of 39 30 December 2008 at 12:49pm | IP Logged |
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It may already have been mentioned, but in Swahili, "mama" basically means madame, and is used to address any married woman when being formal.
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