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Interestingly, in Spanish "mama" means "breast". The intimate word for mother is "mamá" (stress on the second syllable, not the first).
by tsm 13y ago
Interestingly, in Spanish "mama" means "breast". The intimate word for mother is "mamá" (stress on the second syllable, not the first).
- darkhorn 13y agoIn baby-Turkish "mama" means meal. And "meme" means breast.
- btw0 13y agoEven more interestingly, "ma(ma)" means breast too in the dialect of my home town which locates at the central part of China.
- Samuel_Michon 13y agoWell, Spanish is a Romance language[1]. ‘Mamma’ is Latin for ‘breast’, so that makes sense. It’s where words like ‘mammal’ and ‘mammogram’ come from. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LatinEuropeans.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LatinEuropeans.png