Hi Richard,

> I don't think there are any such stems. To me, the most obvious
> candidates are the 'Proto-World' vocabulary, and of those words, I
> think *mama 'mother' is probably the best candidate. One then has

to

> decide which if any of amma 'mother', umm 'mother', mater 'mother'
> and mamma 'nipple' count as instances. It does run the risk of

being

> rightly disqualified as a nursery word.

Originally I came up with three stems: mother, father, and god.
Someone recently mentioned that there was no 'father' in Hebrew.
That leaves us with 'mother' and god. When we examine the
derivitives that can be included, are we using "definition"
or "morphology" or "syntax" or all?

Gerry