ÿþ<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Your Mother</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY text=#00DD00 bgcolor=black> <h1><center>Your Mother Is In Some Way Imperfect</center></h1> <h2> <p>Finally, conclusive proof that many languages' word for 'mother' is often very similar, even in linguistically unrelated languages. But why? Ask a little baby. <p>Tune in next week when I prove that 'wolf' is an onomatopoeia, and the week after that when I prove that 'yellow' is not. <p>Afrikaans: Ma <p>Armenian: Mayr <p>Basque: Ama <p>Belarusian: Maci <p>Bengali: M&#257 <p>Bulgarian: Ma&#301ka <p>Chinese: M&#257m&#257 <p>Croatian: Majka <p>Czech: Matka <p>Dutch: Moeder <p>English: Mother <p>Estonian: Ema <p>French: Mère <p>Greek: Mitéra <p>Gujarati: M&#257t&#257 <p>Hindi: M&#257&#7745 <p>Icelandic: Mó&#240ir <p>Irish: Mháthair <p>Latvian: M&#257te <p>Lithuanian: Motina <p>Macedonian: Majka <p>Maltese: Omm <p>Slovenian: Mati <p>Swahili: Mama <p>Tamil: Am'm&#257 <p>Thai: M&#230 <p><br><a href=index.html>Go Home, Pops</a>