Yiddish באבע (bobe) 'grandmother; old woman; midwife' is no doubt related to Russian баба (baba) which accented on the penultimate means 'old woman' and accented on the ultimate means 'grandfather; old man'. (We have a loanword, babushka (fr. Russian бабушка) 'old lady's head-scarf' which is related.) In the mix, may be German Bube 'boy, male child', which may be related to English boy and baby.


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