Μαμμίαν

mammia, mummy

Translated by David Whitehead23 Jun 2004Vetting: high4 revisions

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Attic writers [call] a mother [this]. From the fact that children refer to eating as mummying [mamma=n].

Greek original · Adler’s text

Μαμμίαν· Ἀττικοὶ τὴν μητέρα. ἀπὸ τοῦ τὰ παιδία μαμμᾶν τὸ φαγεῖν λέγειν.

Betacode

*mammi/an: *)attikoi\ th\n mhte/ra. a)po\ tou= ta\ paidi/a mamma=n to\ fagei=n le/gein.

Same entry, from Aelius Dionysius, in Photius (mu82 Theodoridis).
See e.g. Aristophanes, Lysistrata 878, 879, 890.

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