Yiddish: מאַמע f (mame) Yoruba: ìyá Yucatec Maya: mamah Zulu: (my) umama (zu) class 1a/2a, (your) unyoko class 1a/2a, (his/her) unina class 1a/2a title of respect for one's mother-in-law Malayalam: അമ്മ (ml) (amma), ഭാര്...
Eventually, we found a happy medium: I’d be with my kids in the morning, we’d do one meal with the kids with her, one meal with my mother-in-law, and my mom and I would go and spend some time together on our own somewhere in between. More often than not, I’d take her t...
Life and stories are alike in one way: They are full of hollows. The king and queen have no children: They have a child hollow. The girl has a wicked stepmother: She has a mother hollow. In a story, a baby comes along to fill the child hollow. But in life, the hollows continue ...
Yiddish: מאַמע f (mame) Yoruba: ìyá Yucatec Maya: mamah Zulu: (my) umama (zu) class 1a/2a, (your) unyoko class 1a/2a, (his/her) unina class 1a/2a title of respect for one's mother-in-law Malayalam: അമ്മ (ml) (amma), ഭാര്...
Also profiled in the book are speakers of the Indigenous Mexican language Nahuatl, the Central Asian minority language Wakhi, and the former lingua franca of the Lower East Side, Yiddish。 A century after the anti-immigration Johnson-Reed Act closed America’s doo...