Certain tongues have different words for "mother," according as it is a male or a female who speaks. Thus in the Okanak·ên, a Salish dialect of British Columbia, a man or a boy says for "mother," _sk'õi_, a woman or a girl, _tõm_; in Kalispelm the corresponding terms for "my mother" are _isk'õi_ and _intoop_. This distinction, however, seems not to be so common as in the case of "father." In a number of languages the words for "mother" are different when the latter is addressed and when she is spoken of or referred to. Thus in the Kwakiutl, Nootka, and Çatloltq, three British Columbia tongues, the two words for "mother" are respectively _ât_, _abóuk_; _ãt_, _abEmp_; _nikH_, _tãn_. It is to be noted, apparently, that the word used in address is very often simpler, more primitive, than the other. Even in English we find something similar in the use of _ma_ (or _mama_) and _mother_. In the Gothic alone, of all the great Teutonic dialects,--the language into which Bishop Wulfila translated the Scriptures in the fourth century,--the cognate equivalent of our English _mother_ does not appear. The Gothic term is _aithiei,_ evidently related to _atta,_ "father," and belonging to the great series of nursery words, of which our own _ma, mama,_ are typical examples. These are either relics of the first articulations of the child and the race, transmitted by hereditary adaptation from generation to generation, or are the coinages of mother and nurse in imitation of the cries of infancy. These simple words are legion in number and are found over the whole inhabited earth,--in the wigwam of the Redskin, in the tent of the nomad Bedouin, in the homes of cultured Europeans and Americans. Dr. Buschmann studied these "nature-sounds," as he called them, and found that they are chiefly variations and combinations of the syllables _ab, ap, am, an, ad, at, ba, pa, ma, na, da, ta,_ etc., and that in one language, not absolutely unrelated to another, the same sound will be used to denote the "mother" that in the second signifies "father," thus evidencing the applicability of these words, in the earliest stages of their existence, to either, or to both, of the parents of the child (166. 85). Pott, while remarking a wonderful resemblance in the names for parents all over the world, seeks to establish the rather doubtful thesis that there is a decided difference in the nature of the words for "father" and those for "mother," the former being "man-like, stronger," the latter "woman-like, mild" (517. 57).