I love language, It says so much about people ;-)
In Dutch we use ''tepelhof'' voor areola. It is made of two words ''tepel''=nipple and ''hof'' =garden or the ground surrounding the home
Colostrum is used as that. In animals it is called ''biest'', in old texts it may also refer to human colostrum. If googling for colostrum one will find numerous hits for bovine or horse colostrum sold as a vitamin booster for sportsmen.

Warmly,
Gonneke, IBCLC, LLLL, MOM, language purist in southern Netherlands




--- On Thu, 12/4/08, Rachel O'Leary <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Rachel O'Leary <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [LACTNET] languages
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Date: Thursday, December 4, 2008, 12:22 AM

Dear Norma and all,

About languages and cultures - do other languages (other than English) use the
Latin words 'colostrum' and 'areola'? It seems very odd to me
that we use a foreign, dead language to describe our own living bodies!

The old English word for colostrum is 'beestings' - it occurs in an old
text where they discuss the payment and perks for each job on an Anglo-Saxon
estate: the cow-herd gets the beestings of a cow that has just given birth. I
wonder what they did with it - obviously it was a priviledge and highly valued.
I don't think we could use 'beestings' instead of
'colostrum' now, it is too ancient and forgotten (and sounds like being
stung by a bee!) I like to call it 'early milk' or 'first milk'
to avoid that business where the parents think there is 'no milk until day
3'.

In English, 'colostrum' sounds like 'cholesterol' and parents
often mix these words up. Cholesterol of course is a 'bad thing' so
that's another reason to avoid this foreign word.

I like to tell mothers that the sun also has an areola :) (Or just call it the
dark ring around the nipple.)

What are the words in other languages?

Rachel
Rachel O'Leary, Cambridge UK

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