Féminin
Signification (Anglais)

  1. (feminine) mother (female who gives birth to or parents a child)
  2. (feminine) one's mother
  3. (feminine, figuratively) mother (source or origin)
  4. (feminine, in-compounds, relational) mother, stem (whence others spawn, are generated, are copied or stem)
  5. (feminine) lees (sediment that settles during fermentation of beverages)

Fréquence

A1
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/ˈmɐ̃j̃/
Étymologie (Anglais)

In summary

From Old Galician-Portuguese mãy, nasalization of earlier *mae < *made, child-speech forms of madre, from Latin mātrem, the accusative of māter (“mother”). Doublet of madre. Compare pai (“father”), which underwent a similar phonetic reduction from its root (Latin pater), but was not nasalized. Cognate with Galician mai, nai, Mirandese, Leonese, and Aragonese mai and Asturian ma.

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