I thought dog in Chinese is called dinner.
Like “potato” and “batata”...
Big whoop...
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that “mama” is similar in many languages. Picture what a baby’s mouth does when nursing. It’s not much of a stretch to see how the infant would vocalize “ma-ma” when it wants to nurse. In fact, the word in Spanish for “nurse” is mamar.
I've always liked Japanese food as it's hallmark is FRESH, fresh, fresh, as in sashimi, almost raw. It is FLASHED in hot and then cold water.
Their hot pots are cooked right on the table where one adds the fresh veggies and then fresh, raw meat.
One can always see and smell what they are about to eat.
mother: ummi [literally my mother]
father: baba
I saw a LITTLE girl talking to her "baba." He was SO patient with her and you could tell that he adored his little "bint." [bint = girl]
Except that in Japanese ‘father’ is ‘chichi,’ pronounced “chee-chee,” though the more formal word is ‘oto-san’ (oh-TOE-sahn). Mother, BTW, is ‘haha’ or obaa-san.
Turkish word for dog is köpek. Cat is kedi (sounds a lot like kitty). (My) Mom and Dad is annem ve babam.
"Ma" meaning "horse" may be an Indo-European loanword, cognate with English "mare."
Contrary to the delusions of the gender theorists, mothers and fathers are the most fundamental of human concepts.
What? you mean the gender-binary is present in all languages in the world except in American colleges? You mean that people throughout the world refer to a mother and a father and they have since the beginning of language? You mean they don’t have 55 different words to describe the entire gender continuum?