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Doesn’t bubby mean grandmother?

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So apparently it can be both Grandma and baby, and I have no idea why. I did double check, though.

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“Bubbe” only meant grandmother originally. The “baby” meaning almost certainly comes from it being a false cognate with the English word.

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