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Re: CHAT: The Conlang Instinct

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Friday, December 3, 1999, 17:06
"Grandsire, C.A." wrote:

> Yet it's true > that "ma" is a very spreaded way of kindly meaning "mother", even in > unrelated languages. Where does it come from? Areal influence?
No, areola influence! (The best guess is that /m/ is related to suckling.) -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis vom dies! || John Cowan <jcowan@...> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)