- μάμμη
- μάμμηGrammatical information: f.Meaning: `mother' (Pherecr., Men., Epicur., AP), `motherbreast' (Arr.), `grandmother' (LXX, pap. Ia, Ph., Plu.).Compounds: Compp. like μαμμό-θρεπτος `educated by grandmother' (Phryg., Poll.), also Μαμμά̄κυθος m. `mothers-son' (Ar. Ra. 990, prop. "who hides with his mother" [: κεύθω], ᾱ metr. length.).Derivatives: Hypocoristic (diminutive) derivv.: μαμμία (Ar.), -ίον (Phryn.)- -ίδιον (Plu., Hdt.). Adj. μαμμῳ̃ος, μαμμικός (pap.). Cf. παππία etc. s. πάππα. Denom. verb μαμμάω `suck from mothers(breast)' (Ar. Nu. 383).Origin: ONOM [onomatopoia, and other elementary formations]Etymology: Word of child- and nurse-language, from the reduplicated voc. μάμμᾰ (Ar. Byz.), cf. Solmsen Wortforsch. 286. Lallwort with several cognates, e.g. Lat. mamma `mother, nurse, grandmother, motherbreast', NHG Alem. mamme, Lith. mamà, Russ. máma. Further forms in WP. 2, 221 f., Pok. 694, W.-Hofmann, Fraenkel and Vasmer; also Chantraine REGr. 59--60, 243, Risch Mus. Helv. 1, 119. On the geminate Schwyzer 315, on the α-vowel ibd. 339. Cf. μᾶ, μαῖα, μήτηρ, μαστός.Page in Frisk: 2,168-169
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