European Language Examples
'Mother' in different languages:
- Catalan mamà / mama
- Dutch mama / mam
- English mama / momma / mam/mum/mom
- Faroese mamma
- French maman
- German Mama
- Greek μαμά (mama)
- Icelandic mamma
- Italian mamma
- Lithuanian mama
- Lombard mader
- Norwegian mamma
- Polish mama
- Portuguese mãe / mamãe / mamã
- Romanian mama / mamă
- Russian мама (mama)
- Serbian mama
- Spanish mamá
- Swedish mamma
- Swiss German mami
- Welsh mam
- In Hungarian, which is a Uralic language unrelated to the Indo-European languages, apa means "father" and anya means mother. Which tends to use open vowels such as and .
In Russian papa, deda and baba mean "father", "grandfather" and "grandmother" respectively, though the last two can represent baby-talk (baba is also a slang word for "woman", and a folk word for a married woman with a child born).
What makes the most sense is the breakdown of the word maternal and paternal. Maternal meaning from the mother or (Ma) and Paternal from the father or (Pa).
Read more about this topic: Mama And Papa
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