μάμμη
See also: μαμμή
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Back formed from the onomatopoeic baby-talk μᾰ́μμᾰ (mámma).[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mám.mɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmam.me̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmam.mi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmam.mi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈma.mi/
Noun
μᾰ́μμη • (mámmē) f (genitive μᾰ́μμης); first declension
- mamma, mammy
- mother's breast
- (later) grandmother
- Synonym: τήθη (tḗthē)
Declension
First declension of ἡ μᾰ́μμη; τῆς μᾰ́μμης (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ μᾰ́μμη hē mámmē | τὼ μᾰ́μμᾱ tṑ mámmā | αἱ μᾰ́μμαι hai mámmai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς μᾰ́μμης tês mámmēs | τοῖν μᾰ́μμαιν toîn mámmain | τῶν μᾰμμῶν tôn mammôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ μᾰ́μμῃ têi mámmēi | τοῖν μᾰ́μμαιν toîn mámmain | ταῖς μᾰ́μμαις taîs mámmais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν μᾰ́μμην tḕn mámmēn | τὼ μᾰ́μμᾱ tṑ mámmā | τᾱ̀ς μᾰ́μμᾱς tā̀s mámmās | ||||||||||
Vocative | μᾰ́μμη mámmē | μᾰ́μμᾱ mámmā | μᾰ́μμαι mámmai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Byzantine Greek:
- Greek: μάμμη (mámmi, “grandmother”)
- Romani: mami (“grandmother”)
References
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “μάμμη”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 899
Further reading
- “μάμμη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μάμμη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μάμμη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G3125 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Greek
Noun
μάμμη • (mámmi) f (plural μάμμες)
- (dialect) grandmother
Declension
declension of μάμμη
case \\ number | singular | plural |
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nominative | μάμμη • | μάμμες • |
genitive | μάμμης • | — |
accusative | μάμμη • | μάμμες • |
vocative | μάμμη • | μάμμες • |
Synonyms
- γιαγιά f (giagiá)
- νόνα f (nóna)
- νενέ f (nené)
- βάβω f (vávo)