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Subject:
breastfeeding in other languages
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Diane Wiessinger <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 24 Oct 1997 09:57:40 +0100
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>I posted on this sometime last year, wondering what the feeding of a baby at
>her mother's breast is called in other languages.

"Mama" - a word for mother in at least a few languages - is thought to come
from the Latin baby-talk for breast.  Not for what's *in* the breast, but
for the part of mom that baby snuggles with.  I like that.

Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC, LLLL  Ithaca, NY

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