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单词 Indo-European root: māter-
释义
‌‌māter-
Mother. Based ultimately on the baby-talk form mā-2 , with the kinship term suffix *-ter‑.
Derivatives include mother1, matrix, and matter.
    1. mother1, from Old English mōdor, mother;
    2. mother2, from Middle Dutch moeder, mother. Both a and b from Germanic *mōdar‑.
  1. alma mater, mater, maternal, maternity, matriculate, matrix, matron; madrepore, matrimony, from Latin māter, mother.
  2. metro-; metropolis, from Greek mētēr, mother.
  3. material, matter, from Latin māteriēs, māteria, tree trunk (< "matrix," the tree's source of growth), hence hard timber used in carpentry, hence (by a calque on Greek hūlē, wood, matter) substance, stuff, matter.
  4. Demeter, from Greek compound Dēmētēr, name of the goddess of produce, especially cereal crops (dē‑, possibly meaning "earth").
[Pokorny mātér‑ 700.]
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