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mom - from mamma
mamma
1570s, reduplication of ma-, nearly universal among the I.E. languages. Probably a natural sound in baby-talk, perhaps imitative of sound made while sucking. In educated usage, the stress is always on the last syllable. In terms of recorded usage in English, mum is from 1823, mummy 1839, momma 1884, mom 1894, and mommy 1902.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 13y agoMother's day was thought up by a lady called Anne Jarvis. After her mother's own death Anne Jarvis held a small, special service in her local church for her mother in May. And since then throughout the world Mother's day is celebrated.
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∙ 13y agothe history of the word Mother is It is most appropriate that the word for "mother" in Proto-Indo-European originated in the first recognizable syllable uttered by babies: ma. This syllable was attached to a kinship suffix, -ter, which also turns up in brother, father, and sister. The original form, mater-, later evolved into the current words for "mother" that we now find in all the Indo-European languages: Latin mater, Greek meter (as in metropolis, the mother city), German Mutter, French mère, Serbian majka, Russian mat', materi, Italian and Spanish madre, Portuguese mãe, Danish moder, Dutch and Afrikaans moeder, Norwegian and Swedish mor, Icelandic móðir, Irish máthair, Hindi mataji, Gujarati maataa, Farsi (Persian) madar, and Pashto (Afghanistan) mor. If you are a mother, may this day be as beautiful and exciting as your name in all these languages.
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∙ 16y agoFor a young child, it is easier to say ma-ma. From there it is an easy transition to Mommy and a shortcut from there is Mom.
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