Mama meaning

mä'mə

Mother.

noun

(hypocoristic, usually childish) Mother, female parent.

noun

noun

A woman.

noun

Of baby-talk origin mā-² in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From a reduplication of ma; a trend present in many Indo-European languages, probably with ultimate origin in baby talk; or perhaps representing, in altered form, a continuation of Middle English mome (“mother, aunt"), from Proto-Germanic *mÅmÇ (“mother, aunt"), from Proto-Indo-European *mÃ©hâ‚‚-mÃ©hâ‚‚, reduplication of *mÃ©hâ‚‚- (“mother"), related to German Muhme (“aunt"), Latin mamma (“mother, nurse"), Irish mam (“mother"), Lithuanian mama, moma (“mother").

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