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"...every well-brought-up mongoose always hopes to be a house-mongoose some day and have rooms to run about in, and Rikki-tikki's mother (she used to live in the General's house at Segowlee) had carefully told Rikki what to do if ever he came across white men."
The English derivative for "mother" is maternal.
How to behave and in the case of animals how to find food.
Grandmother in English. English does not distinguish between the Mother's mother and the Father's mother, they are both called Grandmother.
Grandmother in English. English does not distinguish between the Mother's mother and the Father's mother, they are both called Grandmother.
"Mother's Day" in English is fête des mères in French.
"Mother and daughter" in English is madre e figlia in Italian.
The English word "mother" can be written in Sanskrit as "मातृ" (mātṛ).
Ina in English: mother
The Kikuyu word for the English word mother is "Maitũ."
The African Luhya term for the English word 'mother' is Mama.
Mother. Scottish is English.
grandma