māte

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *mā́ˀtē[1], from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr (“mother”), where the initial *ma, *meh₂ may have originally been a child's call or nursery word.

Cognates include Lithuanian mótė (“woman, wife”, dialectally also “mother”), móteris (“woman”), mótina (“mother”), Old Prussian mūti, muti, mothe, Sudovian ate (< *māte), Proto-Slavic *mati (Russian мать (matʹ), Belarusian маць (macʹ), Ukrainian ма́ти (máty), Bulgarian ма́ти (máti), ма́тер (máter), Czech máti, archaic Polish mać), Proto-Germanic *mōdēr (Old Saxon mōdar, Old English mōdor, English mother, Old Norse móðir, Old High German muoter, German Mutter), Sanskrit मातृ (mā́tṛ), Avestan 𐬨𐬁𐬙𐬀𐬭‎ (mātar), Ancient Greek μήτηρ (mḗtēr), Doric μάτηρ (mátēr), Latin māter.[2]

• IPA^(key): [māːtɛ]

māte f (5th declension)

1. mother (female parent)

   mātes mīlestība, rūpes, piens ― mother's love, care, milk

   māte un bērns ― mother and child

   daudzbērnu māte ― a many-child mother

   vientuļā māte ― single (= unmarried) mother

   mātes valoda ― mother tongue (= native language)

   mātes un bērna aizsardzība ― mother and child protection

   bērni palikuši bez mātes ― children left without a mother

   aizstāt kādam māti ― to replace someone's mother

   būt mātes cerībās ― to be in hope of mother (= to be pregnant)

   mazā meitenīte kā mazs cinītis sēdēja mātei blakus ― the little girl, like a little hill, sat next to (her) mother

2. female individual of some animal species

   briežu, vilku, lāču māte ― deer, wolf, bear mother (= female)

   bišu māte ― queen bee

3. (endearing) an older woman

   piesēdies, māt! — take a seat, mother!

   meža māte ― forest mother (= a mythical being)

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