Re: Does every language family contain one with "ma-" "da-" "ta-" words for parents?
| From: | Larry Sulky <larrysulky@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 11, 2006, 15:30 |
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On 5/11/06, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:
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> Sometimes however the assignment of
> "meanings" to these baby utterances is slightly
> different: in Latin _mamma_ means "breast";
> perhaps because upper-class Roman babies weren't
> breast-fed by their birth mothers, and perhaps
> by different other women at different times.
My son's first 'word' was [m6m6m6], which very clearly meant "food /
I'm hungry".
---larry