μάμμη

See also: μαμμή

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Back formed from the onomatopoeic baby-talk μᾰ́μμᾰ (mámma).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mám.mɛː/ → /ˈmam.mi/ → /ˈma.mi/

• (5^th BC Attic) IPA^(key): /mám.mɛː/
• (1^st BC Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmam.me/
• (4^th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmam.mi/
• (10^th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmam.mi/
• (15^th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈma.mi/

Noun

μᾰ́μμη • (mámmē) f (indeclinable)

1. mamma, mammy
2. mother's breast
3. (later) grandmother

Reference

• μάμμη in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μάμμη in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «μάμμη» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “G3125”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979

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Greek

Noun

μάμμη • (mámmi) f (plural μάμμες)

1. (dialect) grandmother

Declension

declension of μάμμη

	singular	plural
nominative	μάμμη •	μάμμες •
genitive	μάμμης •	—
accusative	μάμμη •	μάμμες •
vocative	μάμμη •	μάμμες •

Synonyms

• γιαγιά f (giagiá)
• νόνα f (nóna)
• νενέ f (nené)
• βάβω f (vávo)