Eldamo : Gnomish : bâb

G. bâb n. “father” (Category: Father)

⚠️G. bâb, n. “father” (Category: Father)

A word for “father” in the Gnomish Lexicon Slips (PE13/111). In the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s itself, G. babi or baba was “mummy, mamma” (GL/21, 57). As pointed out by Gilson, Welden, Hostetter and Wynne, there is a complementary change of {nân “father” >>} G. nân “mother” elsewhere in the Gnomish Lexicon Slips (PE13/115).

Reference ✧ PE13/111 ✧ “father”

bâb “father” may have replaced babi “mummy, mamma”

G. babi n. “mummy, mamma” (Category: Mother)

See G. bâb for discussion.

References ✧ GL/21, 57

Glosses

“mummy, mamma” ✧ GL/21

Variations

babi ✧ GL/21
baba ✧ GL/21; GL/57

baba beside maba “mother” ✧ GL/57
babi “mummy, mamma” is similar in meaning to (m)ami “mummy”
bâb “father” may have replaced babi “mummy, mamma”