am(m)a, amī̆

    am(m)a, amī̆

    English meaning: mother

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “Mutter”, Lallwort

    Material: Alb. amë “aunt”, “mother”, out of it “ riverbed “, “ residuum from Flũssigkeiten”; O.Ice. amma “grandmother”, O.H.G. amma “mother, wet nurse “, Ger. Amme; Gk. ἀμμάς, ἀμμία “mother” Hes., Osc. Ammaí, Ammae, i.e. Matri (Göttername)”. About O.Ind. amba “mother” s. Kretschmer KZ. 57, 251 ff. Von amī-, amĭ- (see Brugmann II2, I 496) shaped are Lat. amīcus “friend” and amita “VaterschWester” (compare Lith. anūta ‘schwiegermutter” : Lat. anus “altes woman”). About V.Lat. amma “owl “ s. Sofer Gl. 17, 17 f. Alb. mik “friend” zero grade of Rom. amic “friend” not from Lat. amīcus “friend” A Verbalableitung is perhaps Lat. amüre “lieben” (compare M.H.G. ammen “wait, hold on, care” to amme). After Kretschmer (Gl. 13, 114) rather EtruscO.N. After Zimmermann KZ. 44, 368 f., 47, 174 belongs also Lat. amoenus here. Von a Lat. *amoi (compare Summoi CIL. II 1750) could amoinos = amoenus shaped sein, as Mamoena (to *mamoi) besides Mamana, further through Gk. Γοργόνη; (to Γoργώ) besides Γόργοιτος (to Γοργώι) gestũtzt; Toch. В ammakki (voc.) “mother” from *amma + akki (O.Ind. akkü).

    References: WP. I 53, WH. I 39, 41, Tagliavini Mé l. Pedersen 163.