Re:Are Any Words the Same in All Languages?
by rizzaxc on Friday September 08, 2023 @06:08AM
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haha is Chinese, so also a "loan" word
Re:Are Any Words the Same in All Languages?
by wodenokoto on Friday September 08, 2023 @06:24AM
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Wiktionary seems to disagree, saying it’s a Japanese origin word. https://ja.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/はは
At least in modern mandarin mom is “ma”, but Chinese has so many dialects …
Re:Are Any Words the Same in All Languages?
by numpad0 on Friday September 08, 2023 @06:33AM
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The literary character 母 is Chinese, spoken word はは is not, and some believe old pronunciation was closer to papa.
Re:Are Any Words the Same in All Languages?
by naniwaduni on Friday September 08, 2023 @12:37PM
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Bonus: ちち covers both titty and daddy. Food for thought. And babies too, I guess.
The most common are okaasan (with a few variations of its own), haha and mama.
But mama is written with katakana suggesting it is a loan word. Which I find interesting in terms of the babble word theory.
It could also be katakana because it is considered derived from a sound like how onomatopoeia are often written in katakana, which would really support the babble theory.