Talk:eam
Latest comment: 5 years ago by Chuck Entz
eme or eam originates from the Hebrew/Arabic word for mother: אֵם em or, أم U'm
AK63 (talk) 04:16, 22 November 2018 (UTC)
- No. To quote the message I left on your talk page, which you either haven't read or have misinterpreted:
You have to be very careful with etymologies of words for family members, because they tend to be taken originally from baby talk, and baby talk is the same regardless of the language of the parents. Baby talk changes as the baby grows older, so there's some variation, and which variation goes with which family member, but, as an example, see mama (which includes English, Quechua, and Swahili with the same definition), Chinese 媽媽/妈妈, Proto-Semitic *ʾimm-, Proto-Dravidian *amma, Basque ama, Proto-Uralic *emä, Korean 엄마 (eomma), Malay emak, etc.