mârraine
Norman
noun
Definitions
- (Jersey) godmother
Etymology
Inherited from Old French marrene inherited from Latin *matrīna, māter (mother, in the sense of 'source').
Origin
Latin
māter
Gloss
mother, in the sense of 'source'
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
- mater English
- matrimony English
- matronymic English
- *matrasta Latin
- *matrastra Latin
- *matrīna Latin
- commater, commātrem, commāter Latin
- commātrem Latin
- mater Latin
- matercula Latin
- materia Latin
- maternus Latin
- matralis Latin
- matresco Latin
- matricida Latin
- matricidium Latin
- matrimonium Latin
- māter Latin
- māternus Latin
- mate Italian
- matrigna Italian
- marraine French
- madre Spanish, Castilian
- -άρχης Ancient Greek
- *méh₂tēr Proto-Indo-European
- matere Middle English
- mater Czech
- marrene Old French
- matriarche Old French
- medre Old French
- mãy Old Portuguese
- *mātēr Proto-Italic
- madrina Asturian
- mader Lombard