amma
Old High German
noun
Definitions
- wet nurse
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Germanic *ammǭ (mother).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*ammǭ
Gloss
mother
Concept
Semantic Field
Kinship
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
母
Emoji
🤰 🤱 🤶
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *amitāna Latin
- *mita Latin
- abamita Latin
- amita Latin
- amitinus Latin
- amma Latin
- amo Latin
- mamma Latin
- Amme German
- Ammenmärchen German
- Ammensprache German
- tante French
- ama Spanish, Castilian
- ἄμμα Ancient Greek
- *am-a- Proto-Indo-European
- *amma Proto-Indo-European
- *amma- Proto-Indo-European
- tante Norwegian Bokmål
- ama Portuguese
- *ammǭ Proto-Germanic
- tante Norwegian Nynorsk
- amma Old Norse
- antain Old French
- ante Old French
- amo Galician
- îmă Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- emtë Albanian
- ëmë Albanian
- אַם Yiddish
- ama Old Portuguese
- onda Romansh
- agne Friulian
- gnagna Venetian
- àmeda Venetian
- àmia Venetian
- *am(m)ā Proto-Albanian
- amia Dalmatian