PROTO: *babV
MEANING: mother
COMMENT: A "nursery" word, like many other EC kinship terms; may be secondary. The non-reduplicated form *ʔabV is very seldom attested (only in Av. ebe-l and PD *ʔaba), because of a possible confusion with *ʔŏbV̄(jV) 'father' (also a nursery word, but probably used with that meaning already in PNC).
