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Headword: *mammi/an
Adler number: mu,126
Translated headword: mammia, mummy
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Attic writers [call] a mother [this]. From the fact that children refer to eating as mummying [mamma=n].
Greek Original:
*mammi/an: *)attikoi\ th\n mhte/ra. a)po\ tou= ta\ paidi/a mamma=n to\ fagei=n le/gein.
Notes:
Same entry, from Aelius Dionysius, in Photius (mu82 Theodoridis).
See e.g. Aristophanes, Lysistrata 878, 879, 890.
Keywords: children; comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 23 June 2004@04:16:55.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (added keyword, set status) on 23 June 2004@20:06:12.
David Whitehead (added note and another keyword) on 24 June 2004@03:03:12.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 16 November 2005@08:22:11.
David Whitehead on 29 April 2013@06:32:20.
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