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What do you think was the first sound to become a word, a meaning?... I imagined two people without words, unable to speak to each other. I imagined the need: The color of the sky that meant 'storm.' The smell of fire taht meant 'Flee.' The sound of a tiger about to pounce. Who would worry about these things? And then I realized what the first word must have been: ma, the sound of a baby smacking its lips in search of her mother's breast. For a long time, that was the only word the baby needed. Ma, ma, ma. Then the mother decided that was her name and she began to speak, too. She taught the baby to be careful: sky, fire, tiger. A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.
Amy Tan language mother motherhood words

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LOVE 708 clues
LIFE 399 clues
PAST 383 clues
MIND 222 clues
DEATH 196 clues
NATURE 180 clues
WORDS 118 clues
LANGUAGE 89 clues
MOTHER 88 clues
FORGIVENESS 69 clues
MORTALITY 21 clues
MOTHERHOOD 11 clues
MISTAKES 8 clues

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Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
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