Introduction
One of the most fascinating aspects of words is that they all have a past.
Some words in English, for example, can be shown to have been in place for more than 5000 years (P. Baldi, 1999).
Ordinarily we pay little attention to the words we articulate; we concentrate instead on the meaning we intend to express and we are seldom conscious of how we express that meaning.
Only if we make a mistake and we have to correct it or we have difficulty remembering a word we become conscious of our word.
This means that most of us do not know where the word we use come from and how they come to have the meaning they do.
English words come from several different sources. They developed naturally over the course of centuries from ancestral languages, they are also borrowed from other languages and we create many of them by various means of word vocabulary available to us today.
History and morphology of the word Mother
The idea of the mother goddess was invented in early ice age, some 25,000-30,000 years ago. She and her life giving breasts were called omma from which we have the words akin to maternal, matter, and mother.
By the late ice age the Semites had shortened omma to om. The Dravidians of India are Semites who migrated to India after the ice age. They still call mother goddess omm. Om is also the present day Arabic word for female and mother.
Omma became ma among the Iranians, meaning the female breast. From ma we have the Iranian maman.
Also, we have the Iranian ma-Dar (earlier ma-tar) meaning breast which became mater in Latin, modor in Old English (725), madre in modern Italian, and mother in modern English (1425), (R.K.Barnhant, 2000).
Collocation
There are several words that fit together with the word mother.
 Mother Country
 Mother Nature
 Mother Figure
 Mother Tongue
 Mother Board
Connotation
The word mother has a positive connotation as it describes maternal tenderness and affection although in American English mother could also mean motherfucker which carry a negative and vulgar meaning (Chambers, 1994).
Semantic field relation
The following are some semantic field relations to the word mother.
 Father
 Son
 Daughter
Semantic usage
REGISTER
Mother Very Formal British English
Mum Informal British English
Mummy Informal British English mainly used by children
Mom Informal American English
Mommy Informal American English mainly used by children
Ma Informal expression American and British English working class (often used with any much older woman)
Words are like vessels—they are merely novel constructions of sounds empty of meaning until we fill them. They mean only what we discern in them, and nothing more. Words are only our impressions of them—imprecise, indefinite, unclear. A single word suggests infinite shades of intensity, quality, or connotation. They are variable, distinct in each era and dialect, even in each language.
My mother has a lot to do with the reason behind my liking in this word. She has been a big influence in my life since I learned how to love. This past Mother’s Day, the two of us were riding home from a long day of church-going and visiting with the mother figures in our life. Suddenly, she turned up the volume on the radio and looked over to me.
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Words hold great power and when used correctly can influence what people believe and how they act.
Sometimes we think that words are a way to express what we have on our minds. Right? Think again. Guy Deutscher justifies just that. Our mother tongue does train our brains into thinking a certain type of way, also altering our perceptions of reality. In the NY Times article, “Does Your Language Shape How You Think?,” Guy points out that the mother tongue is Hebrew and leaves us with how we perceive the world. Guy’s protestor, Benjamin Lee Whorf, exclaims that language doesn’t have a particular word for a concept and that the concept itself could not be understood by the speaker. Guy argues that he does not have enough evidence that will substantiate the theory. He claims that Whorf is wrong on so many
Children must know about something before they can re-create it in language. Once a word is introduce, it cannot be erase from memory. Naylor shared a personal experience that demonstrated her personal stake in this situation as she described the first time she heard a different meaning of the word “nigger.” A white boy in her third-grade class said it to her in spite when she gave him his test. “I didn’t know what a nigger was, but I knew that whatever it meant, it was something he shouldn’t have called me. (257)” When a baby hears the
Flowers stated. I feel as if she is completely right words have little to no meaning without a voice and actions to put them in place. How things happen in this world good or bad, is always when someone has the courage to speak and actually make a change. Imagination is a terrible thing to waste and so is the knowledge you learn. Everything you write can be connected to a higher purpose. To a possible great outcome if you just let the words you speak in your mind with a pencil become the words you speak aloud to
This discrepancy in word experiences seems to be one of the leading causes of the word gap.
Let's see what a few dictionaries have to say and how a word could alter and lose its true and actual meaning.
Motherhood is a term used and displayed in everyday life. It has several aspects that require many talents and hard work. However, sometimes motherhood needs little to no talent or dedication, as well. Motherhood is an opportunity to serve others and have a big impact on other’s life.
The foundation of verbal meaning often lies in the silence of what is felt nonverbally and bodily.When writing goes well, it is often because we periodically pause and say, 'Is this what I mean to be saying?'It's amazing that we can answer that question:that we can tell whether a given set of words corresponds to an intention.The source of the answer is the feelings and the body-consulted in silence.When writing goes badly, it is often because we don't make these pauses for quiet consultations with felt sense. (Everyone Can Write 176)
Alegeo, J., 1993, Fifty years among new words: a dictionary of neologisms, Cambridge University Press.
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A mother is a woman in charge. By definitions created by other civilians a mother is a compassionate woman who gave birth to you and always wants to protect you. Most of the time it is an unspoken rule that the female rules the house. As the joke states, “happy wife, happy life”. The mother carries the baby in her womb for nine months and goes through hours of excruciating pain to bring the child into the world. People typically see the mom as the more caring and compassionate parent.
Now, have you ever looked—I mean really looked at the English language? It is a very confusing language and it’s no wonder so many other people have so much trouble understanding it. Have you ever talked to someone from a foreign country and you’ve had to rephrase the entire thing you were trying to say because they didn’t understand? That’s exactly what I’m talking about.