μάμμη

See also: μαμμή

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

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

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

Noun

μᾰ́μμη • (mắmmē) f (genitive μᾰ́μμης); first declension

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

   Synonym: τήθη (tḗthē)

Declension

First declension of ἡ μᾰ́μμη; τῆς μᾰ́μμης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μᾰ́μμη hē mắmmē	τὼ μᾰ́μμᾱ tṑ mắmmā	αἱ μᾰ́μμαι hai mắmmai
Genitive	τῆς μᾰ́μμης tês mắmmēs	τοῖν μᾰ́μμαιν toîn mắmmain	τῶν μᾰμμῶν tôn mămmôn
Dative	τῇ μᾰ́μμῃ têi mắmmēi	τοῖν μᾰ́μμαιν toîn mắmmain	ταῖς μᾰ́μμαις taîs mắmmais
Accusative	τὴν μᾰ́μμην tḕn mắmmēn	τὼ μᾰ́μμᾱ tṑ mắmmā	τᾱ̀ς μᾰ́μμᾱς tā̀s mắmmās
Vocative	μᾰ́μμη mắmmē	μᾰ́μμᾱ mắmmā	μᾰ́μμαι mắmmai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• μαμμίᾱ (mammíā)

Descendants

• Byzantine Greek:
  • Greek: μάμμη (mámmi, “grandmother”)
  • Romani: mami (“grandmother”)

Further reading

• “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, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

Greek

Noun

μάμμη • (mámmi) f (plural μάμμες)

1. (dialect) grandmother

Declension

Declension of μάμμη

	singular	plural
nominative	μάμμη (mámmi)	μάμμες (mámmes)
genitive	μάμμης (mámmis)	-
accusative	μάμμη (mámmi)	μάμμες (mámmes)
vocative	μάμμη (mámmi)	μάμμες (mámmes)

Synonyms

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