Afroasiatic etymology : Query result

Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *ʔVma/*ma(y)

Meaning: mother

Borean etymology: Borean etymology

Semitic: *ʔu/imm- 'mother'

Berber: *maH 'mother'

Egyptian: mw.t (pyr) 'mother'

Western Chadic: *maH- 'mother' (?)

Central Chadic: *ʔama 'mother'

High East Cushitic: *ʔam- 'mother'

South Cushitic: *ʔam- 'grandmother' 1, 'sister' 2, 'mother' 3, 'girl' 4 (otherwise to No. 81)

Notes: A nursery word? Rather to be separated from *ʔam- 'woman'. HSED 34: Sem. *ʔam- 'maid, girl', WCh *ʔam- 'woman', HECu *ʔam- 'mother, wife, woman', SCu. Cf. Iraqw Bur mamay, Dah ʔááma 'mother's brother' [Ehret SCP 282].