•female equivalent of piastun (“woman who looks after children”) · female equivalent of piastun (“in early medieval Poland, a high-ranking official responsible for the upbringing of royal children”) · female equivalent of piastun (“young girl whom one is caring for or raising”)
köken: PIE word *gʷḗn From Middle Irish banaltra (“foster-mother, nurse”), from ban- (“woman”) + altra (“foster-father”) (see altram (“fosterage”)). By surface analysis, ban- + altra.