bāba
Latvian
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Balto-Slavic *bā́ˀbāˀ[1]. Cognate with Proto-Slavic *ba̋ba (“old woman”) and Lithuanian bóba (“old woman”).
Noun
bãba f
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 32