Re: CHAT: The Conlang Instinct

arachnis@earthlink.net writes:
>Actually that's a very good way to think, in this particular case,
>anyway. "Ma"
>is not the word for mother in every language, just a large percentage of
>them.
>In Finnish, for example, mother is "=E4iti" (that's an a with diereses).
>
>    Clint
In Tagalog it's: in=E1, in=E1ng, in=E1y, nanay.

The Spanish brought "mam=E1"