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The Origins of Father in Germanic Languages
The word father likely came from a long dead source language estimated to date back some 6,000 years. Linguists theorize that at some early point in the development of the Indo-European language, the sound sequence pa, babbled in early speech and may have been interpreted as referring to good old dad. A similar bent is found in English, where children use the more intimate papa, dad, or sometimes daddy,. This tendency towards similar vocabulary words suggests that something pretty universal must be driving it.
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