μάμμη

See also: μαμμή

Ancient Greek

Back formed from the onomatopoeic baby-talk μᾰ́μμᾰ (mắmmă).^[1]

μᾰ́μμη • (mắmmē) f (genitive μᾰ́μμης); first declension

First declension of ἡ μᾰ́μμη; τῆς μᾰ́μμης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μᾰ́μμη hē mắmmē	τὼ μᾰ́μμᾱ tṑ mắmmā	αἱ μᾰ́μμαι hai mắmmai
Genitive	τῆς μᾰ́μμης tês mắmmēs	τοῖν μᾰ́μμαιν toîn mắmmain	τῶν μᾰμμῶν tôn mămmôn
Dative	τῇ μᾰ́μμῃ tēî mắmmēi	τοῖν μᾰ́μμαιν toîn mắmmain	ταῖς μᾰ́μμαις taîs mắmmais
Accusative	τὴν μᾰ́μμην tḕn mắmmēn	τὼ μᾰ́μμᾱ tṑ mắmmā	τᾱ̀ς μᾰ́μμᾱς tā̀s mắmmās
Vocative	μᾰ́μμη mắmmē	μᾰ́μμᾱ mắmmā	μᾰ́μμαι mắmmai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Byzantine Greek:
- Greek: μάμμη (mámmi, “grandmother”)
- Romani: mami (“grandmother”)

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “μάμμη”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 899

μάμμη • (mámmi) f (plural μάμμες)