mother

abbedissa

hiiva

olla äitinä

äiti A (human) female who (a) parentVerb parents a child (b) gives birth to a baby (c) donates a fertilized egg or (d) donates a body cell which has resulted in a clone. Sometimes used in reference to a pregnant female, possibly as a shortened form of mother-to-be.

I am visiting my mother(a) today. — My sister-in-law has just become a mother.(b) — Nutrients and oxygen obtained by the mother(c) are conveyed to the fetus.

He had something of his mother in him, but this was because he realized that in the end only her love was unconditional, and in gratitude he had emulated her.

The antiabortion iconography in the last decade featured the fetus but never the mother.

The lioness was a mother of four cubs.

And AdaAdam called his wyfe HeuaEve because she was the mother of all that lyveth

But one in the place of God and not God, is as it were a falsehood; it is the mother falsehood from which all idolatry is derived.

The Mediterranean was mother to many cultures and languages.

Alas, poor country: / Almost afraid to know itself! It cannot / Be call'd our mother, but our grave:

Mother Smith, meet my cousin, Doug Jones.

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