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The term mema (may-ma) for a grandmother may be German-Jewish (Yiddish) in origin, although the normal term in Yiddish is bube (buh-bee).

Mema may have influences from some other European language such as Hungarian, Polish or Serb, since Yiddish absorbed many words from other languages.

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