mother
part of speech
noun (mother, mothers); verb (mother, mothers, mothered — to care for like a mother)
meaning for a pupil
1) A mother is a woman who has a child. Your mother is your mom or mum. tree →
2) An animal mother is the female that has babies: the mother bird. tree →
3) To mother someone is to care for them, sometimes too much. tree →
4) Something can be called the mother of another thing when it gives rise to it or brings it about. tree →
sense in the lessons
Interpretation: The Torah says to honor your father and mother. The rule against cooking a kid in its mother's milk is read by tradition as the basis for keeping meat and milk apart. In Sefer Yetzirah the "mother letters" are Aleph, Mem and Shin. In the primary lessons: a person in the story who gives, buys or bakes things; sometimes her age is compared with a child's; in science mother animals feed and protect their young; phrases «Mother's Day», «mother tongue» (first language), «Mother Nature», «grandmother», «stepmother»
examples
- And Isaac was comforted for his mother. (Torah GEN.24.67, JPS 1917) tree →
- Cursed be he that lieth with his mother-in-law. (Torah DEU.27.23, JPS 1917) tree →
- Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk. (Torah EXO.23.19, JPS 1917) tree →
- And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi. (Prophets 1KI.22.42, JPS 1917) tree →
- We are become orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. (Writings LAM.5.3, JPS 1917) tree →
- The words of king Lemuel; the burden wherewith his mother corrected him. (Writings PRO.31.1, JPS 1917) tree →
- His mother gave him 5 dollars. tree →
- Her mother is 3 times as old as she is. tree →
- Mother baked 24 cookies. tree →
- The mother bird brought 6 worms. tree →
- We made cards for Mother's Day. tree →
- The mother elephant protects her calf. tree →
- Her mother tongue is Spanish. tree →
- My mother is a nurse at the hospital. tree →
- Necessity is the mother of invention. tree →
note
A person who acts, not a number. Age problems: «mother is 30 years older» means add. Trap: «3 times as old» means multiply, not add. Mom (US, Canada), Mum (UK, Australia, NZ), Mam (Ireland, some of the UK) are friendly words for mother.
In the corpora
- Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh.
- And the man called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
- And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
- And the damsel ran, and told her mother's house according to these words.
- And Isaac was comforted for his mother.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «mother» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.