The Gothic word for "mother"

[ualarauans]

--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "Ingemar Nordgren" <ingemar at ...> 
wrote:
>
> [...]
> Could atta just be an honorary title on the oldest  person of the
> family living - family/kin father, sw. ättefader, and analogous the
> mother= 'ättemoder'.

Swedish ätt comes from PGmc *aihtiz F.-i and corresponds to Go. 
aihts "propriety", not atta.

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