Mater

Une bonne journée de fête des mères.

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MERE

Mother

Mater

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It is most appropriate that the word for "mother" in Proto-Indo-European (the mother of most languages spoken in from India to Europe) originated in the first recognizable syllable uttered by babies: ma. This syllable was attached to a kinship suffix, -ter, which also turns up in brother, father, and sister. The original form, mater-, later evolved into the current words for "mother" in most of the languages of Europe and India: Latin mater, Greek meter (as in metropolis, the mother city), German Mutter, French mère, Serbian majka, Russian mat', materi, Italian and Spanish madre, Portuguese mãe, Danish moder, Dutch and Afrikaans moeder, Norwegian mor, Swedish moder, Icelandic móðir, Irish máthair, Hindi mataji, Gujarati maataa, Farsi (Persian) madar, and Pashto mor. If you are a mother, may this day be as beautiful and exciting as all these languages.