köken: from Proto-Turkic *eńe (“mother”), a front vowel parallel to *ana (“mother”). Cognate with Bashkir инәй (inəy, “mother; address to old woman”), Tatar әни (äni, “mother”), Southern Altai эне (ene, “mother”), Kazakh ене (ene, “mother-in-law”), Yakut ийе (iye, “mother”); Khakas иней (iney, “old woman”), etc.
köken: From Proto-Turkic *ăča / *ĕče "mother; elder sister; older woman". Compare with Kyrgyz эже (eje, “elder sister; a way to address an older woman”), Southern Altai эје (eǰe, “elder sister; a way to address an older woman”), Uzbek ocha (“grandmother”), Uyghur ئاچا (acha, “elder sister; a way to address an older woman”), etc.
köken: As a surface analysis, this is a compound of 御 (o-, honorific prefix) + 母 (kā, “mother”) + さん (-san, honorific suffix). Historically, this represents a sound shift from older term o-kaka-sama, itself a compound of 御 (o-, honorific prefix) + 母 (kaka, “mother”) + 様 (-sama, honorific suffix). /okakasama/ → /okkasama/ → /okaːsama/ /okakasama/ → /okkasama/ → /okaːsan/ Attested in Osaka and Kyoto, with…
köken: From Old Swedish damb, dåm (“dust, steam”). Akin to Low German damp, Dutch damp, and Danish damp (“vapor, steam, fog”), German Dampf, Icelandic dampi, English damp (“moderately wet”), and to German dampf imperative of dimpfen (“to smoke”). Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dampaz.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr Proto-Balto-Slavic *mā́ˀtē Proto-Slavic *mati Old Polish mać Polish mać Inherited from Old Polish mać.
From Proto-Finnic *emä (compare Estonian ema), from Proto-Uralic *emä (compare Hungarian eme (“sow”), Tundra Nenets небя (nyebya)). Mostly displaced in the sense “mother (of a person)” by the borrowed äiti.