Sunday, January 17, 2010

Mother, in my words (revised)

moder : mother

The Illunse word for mother is moder. Moder is a last name. In Danish moder translates to mother. In Swedish and Norwegian moder is a word meaning mother that is likely archaic. In Slovenian moder means blue.

This word is a mixture of the Old English word for mother which is módor and the Latin word for mother which is mater.

My previous word for mother was mader. After some consideration, I decided to change the first vowel from A to O to make my Illunse word for mother less like my word for father, which is pader. I'm making this change even though it makes the new word not as good of an alphabetic mix.

Here's a link to Mother, in J.R.R. Tolkien's words.

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