On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Adina Adler wrote: > >David Silberstein wrote: >> >> (And for those who don't know, "emma" is Hebrew for "mother") >Not really, since the Hebrew word for "mother" is pronounced with a >long "e", and "emma" is generally pronounced with a short "e". > Well, if you want to get linguistically nit-picky, "emma" is /derived/ >from the Hebrew for "mother". And if you want to get even more nit-picky, "eema" (with long "e") is Aramaic (note the terminal aleph; the same goes for "abba"), while the correct Hebrew for mother is "em" (short "e").