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emä.

mother

3 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈemæ/[ˈe̞mæ]

  1. mother

    archaic

  2. mother of an animal, dam

  3. womb

    archaic

  4. mother, parent, head, major

    emämaa
    emäpuu
Where this word comes from

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.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.