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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