Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *ammǭScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_ammǭ
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Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 10/1)RobertBeekesBrill2010Nursery words and hypocorisms among Germanic kinship terms10.1075/nowele.00011.hanBjarne Simmelkjær SandgaardHansenNOWELE. North-Western European Language Evolution712176-18320182026-08-01T15:39:16Zhttp://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/nowele.00011.hanISSN: 0108-8416, 2212-9715Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7)Michielde VaanBrill2008ἀμμάmotherἀμμίαmother, nurseammamotherammaimother (dat. sg.)amëmother
nounfeminineōn-stemgrandmother; a parent’s motherwet nurse, nursemother; especially as an affectionate or nursery termA nursery word or hypocorism (Lallwort), ultimately imitative rather than derived from a Proto-Indo-European lexical root. The word belongs to a widespread Indo-European nursery word type characterized by labial nasals, and reduplicative or geminate structure; compare Ancient Greek ἀμμά , ἀμμία, Latin amma, Oscan ammai, and Albanian amë. De Vaan 2008: 38–39 formally reconstructs *h₂em(m)-h₂ for the Italic and comparable forms, but the variable gemination and the propensity of amma-type words to arise independently in child language make a regular PIE lexical reconstruction uncertain; the forms are better regarded as inherited and/or recurrent parallel nursery formations rather than secure cognates in the strict comparative sense. Beekes 2010: 88, s.v. ἀμμάHansen 2018: 177.