matronym (MA-truh-nim) noun
- A name derived from the name of a mother or maternal ancestor. Also metronym.
[From Latin metr- (mother) + Greek -onym (name, word).] Derive from Latin materia, woody part of a tree, its source of growth. Ultimately offspring of the Indo-European root mater-.
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Have you forgotten? It al derived from Indo-European roots! Emphasis on India, forget the Latin and Greek. Now we just need to trace it further back to Alma Mater - Afrika! And we'll be all right.
In russian language we have the word - mater [transliterated, pronounced [mah-ter',with soft 'r'], meaning - you know what. Other variant is the word - mat'
[transliterated, pronounced [mah-t', with soft 't']. And of course - mama, international first word of almost any child.
Aren't we proud descendants or what?
Viktor V. Trukov
