[ExI] little puzzle

Adrian Tymes atymes at gmail.com
Sun Oct 1 16:08:47 UTC 2023


On Sun, Oct 1, 2023 at 6:31 AM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> What a fascinating word. Before OK was brought up, I was thinking of
> "mama". The syllable "ma" occurs in the word for mother in every
> language that I myself am familiar with. It lies at the very definition
> of "mammal". It might be a runner up to OK in terms of being close to a
> universal word. Can anybody think of an exception?
>

The Danish translation of "mama" is "mor".  Finnish is "äiti".  Lao is
"aem".  Mongolian is "eej".  And there's Georrgian, as Gadersd pointed out.
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