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Where does “umama” come from?

umama (Xhosa) comes from Proto-Bantu *mààmá.

umama (Xhosa): mom, mother

Definitions

  1. mom, mother

Ancestry of “umama”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Bantu*mààmá—
Every word from Proto-Bantu *mààmá →