Is this similar to the name Annie? Or more like "ah-knee"? Either way, interesting note! I'm just really surprised that these words are similar across such varieties of languages. Like the fact that you have Asia, Europe, Africa, and from what I can find even the mama is similar in Cherokee[0]. So that's all continents! To me that's crazy. And extra fucking interesting that there appears to be (from my non-expert point of view) higher variance in papa than mama, and by a lot.

[0] https://navajowotd.com/word/akei/

> Is this similar to the name Annie? Or more like "ah-knee"?

It's probably easiest if you ask Google Translate to pronounce the word for you: https://translate.google.com/?sl=tr&tl=en&text=anne&op=trans...

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anne#Turkish gives the pronunciation as ɑnːe/, [ɑ̽n̪.ˈn̪e̞]

It’s similar to a stereotypical Canadian saying “on, eh?” eru’s response gives the best understanding though, as there’s no perfect English pronunciation of anne.

The origin of "anne" is "ana" (/ˈa.na/), though, which is closer to "mama". Also it is hypothesized that "ana" was derived from the babble word "nana".

Interestingly "ana" replaced the older Turkish word "ög" around 8th-9th century which further deviates from the babble word, and is still used in modern Turkish words such as "öksüz" (without-mother, orphan).