Re: CHAT: The Conlang Instinct
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 3, 1999, 17:06 |
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"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.)
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