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[Opinions] Re: Ama

by Ottilie

3/8/2015, 12:37 PM

Is it a term for one's mother or grandmother in some places? It feels to me like it is, but I did a quick online search and it doesn't seem so. I like Ama's symmetry and simplicity; it almost seems like it should be lacking something, but somehow it isn't. As you mentioned Ama Lia, it would make an oddly unexpected, and certainly pleasant, nickname for Amalia. I think I like it.

Whenever I have name dreams, the baby is always given the same name, Romilly, unsurprising given my deep and unwavering love for it :)

Ottilie

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- jennifer

3/9/2015, 4:37 PM

Ama de casa is Spanish for housewife, ama de llaves is housekeeper, and ama can also mean wet nurse.

- Mireio (Anna21) +1

3/8/2015, 1:49 PM

Amma means "mother" in Hindi and many south Indian languages. :)

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- Ottilie

3/8/2015, 1:52 PM

Aha! Now that sounds familiar :)

- whim +1

3/8/2015, 1:19 PM

That's funny. Never in my dreams do I give the same names I would in waking life.

I definitely noticed the correlation between Ama Lia and Amalia. I wondered whether that's what I meant but I distinctly remember separating the names when speaking them. Odd stuff. I have to agree Ama would make such a cute nickname for Amalia.

Thanks!

- Ottilie

3/8/2015, 1:41 PM

Maybe I'm just not a very creative dreamer; my dreams always tend to be realistic, as far as dreams go.

I always tend to go for Mia as a nickname for Amalia, whenever I ponder it, funny I've never thought of Ama before.

- Ninor (Frozten) +1

3/8/2015, 1:07 PM

You're probably thinking of "oma". I think it's german for grandmother ?

- Ottilie

3/8/2015, 1:15 PM

Yeah, I think it's definitely the similarity to oma that confused me, haha.

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