Re: Common words for man & husband, woman & wife

R A Brown wrote:
> Quite why they supplanted the earlier inherited IE forms in the
> Brittonic languages and persisted as hypocorisms even among the Germanic
> settlers is anybody's guess. I suppose it shows the persistence of
> hypocorisms   :)
Interestingly, Japanese also has borrowed _mama_ and _papa_ from
English, although the native and Sino-Japanese terms are still more
common in most contexts, although there are some contexts where _mama_
is used more often.

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