![]() ![]() Sense of "that which has given birth to anything" is from late Old English as a familiar term of address to an elderly woman, especially of the lower class, by c. Spelling with -th- dates from early 16c., though that pronunciation is probably older (see father (n.)). ![]() "female parent, a woman in relation to her child," Middle English moder, from Old English modor, from Proto-Germanic *mōdēr (source also of Old Saxon modar, Old Frisian moder, Old Norse moðir, Danish moder, Dutch moeder, Old High German muoter, German Mutter), from PIE *mater- "mother" (source also of Latin māter, Old Irish mathir, Lithuanian motė, Sanskrit matar-, Greek mētēr, Old Church Slavonic mati), "ased ultimately on the baby-talk form *mā- (2) with the kinship term suffix *-ter-".
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