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|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[mother]] (Pherecr., Men., Epicur., AP), [[motherbreast]] (Arr.), [[grandmother]] (LXX, pap. Ia, Ph., Plu.).<br />Compounds: Compp. like <b class="b3">μαμμό-θρεπτος</b> <b class="b2">educated by grandmother</b> (Phryg., Poll.), also <b class="b3">Μαμμάκυθος</b> m. <b class="b2">mothers-son</b> (Ar. Ra. 990, prop. "who hides with his mother" [: <b class="b3">κεύθω</b>], <b class="b3">α</b> metr. length.).<br />Derivatives: Hypocoristic (diminutive) derivv.: <b class="b3">μαμμία</b> (Ar.), <b class="b3">-ίον</b> (Phryn.)- <b class="b3">-ίδιον</b> (Plu., Hdt.). Adj. <b class="b3">μαμμῳ̃ος</b>, <b class="b3">μαμμικός</b> (pap.). Cf. <b class="b3">παππία</b> etc. s. <b class="b3">πάππα</b>. Denom. verb <b class="b3">μαμμάω</b> <b class="b2">suck from mothers(breast)</b> (Ar. Nu. 383).<br />Origin: ONOM [onomatopoia, and other elementary formations]<br />Etymology: Word of child- and nurse-language, from the reduplicated voc. <b class="b3">μάμμα</b> (Ar. Byz.), cf. Solmsen Wortforsch. 286. Lallwort with several cognates, e.g. Lat. [[mamma]] [[mother]], [[nurse]], [[grandmother]], [[motherbreast]], NHG Alem. [[mamme]], Lith. <b class="b2">mamà</b>, Russ. <b class="b2">máma</b>. 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 <b class="b3">α-</b>vowel ibd. 339. Cf. [[μᾶ]], [[μαῖα]], [[μήτηρ]], [[μαστός]].
|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[mother]] (Pherecr., Men., Epicur., AP), [[motherbreast]] (Arr.), [[grandmother]] (LXX, pap. Ia, Ph., Plu.).<br />Compounds: Compp. like <b class="b3">μαμμό-θρεπτος</b> <b class="b2">educated by grandmother</b> (Phryg., Poll.), also <b class="b3">Μαμμάκυθος</b> m. <b class="b2">mothers-son</b> (Ar. Ra. 990, prop. "who hides with his mother" [: <b class="b3">κεύθω</b>], <b class="b3">α</b> metr. length.).<br />Derivatives: Hypocoristic (diminutive) derivv.: <b class="b3">μαμμία</b> (Ar.), <b class="b3">-ίον</b> (Phryn.)- <b class="b3">-ίδιον</b> (Plu., Hdt.). Adj. <b class="b3">μαμμῳ̃ος</b>, <b class="b3">μαμμικός</b> (pap.). Cf. <b class="b3">παππία</b> etc. s. <b class="b3">πάππα</b>. Denom. verb <b class="b3">μαμμάω</b> <b class="b2">suck from mothers(breast)</b> (Ar. Nu. 383).<br />Origin: ONOM [onomatopoia, and other elementary formations]<br />Etymology: Word of child- and nurse-language, from the reduplicated voc. <b class="b3">μάμμα</b> (Ar. Byz.), cf. Solmsen Wortforsch. 286. Lallwort with several cognates, e.g. Lat. [[mamma]] [[mother]], [[nurse]], [[grandmother]], [[motherbreast]], NHG Alem. [[mamme]], Lith. <b class="b2">mamà</b>, Russ. <b class="b2">máma</b>. 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 <b class="b3">α-</b>vowel ibd. 339. Cf. [[μᾶ]], [[μαῖα]], [[μήτηρ]], [[μαστός]].
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|mdlsjtxt=[[μάμμη]], ἡ,<br /><b class="num">I.</b> [[mamma]], mammy, a [[child]]'s [[attempt]] to [[articulate]] [[mother]], Anth.:—so [[ἄττα]], [[πάππας]], [[τάτα]], [[τέττα]], [[papa]], for [[father]].<br /><b class="num">II.</b> a [[grandmother]], Plut.
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