اچه

• اچا (äçä)

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *eke (“elder sister”). Cognate with Kazakh әже (äje, “grandmother”), Turkmen eje (“mother, aunt, elder sister”), Chuvash акка (akka), Kyrgyz эже (eje, “elder sister, aunt”), Southern Altai эје (eǰe, “elder sister”), Ottoman Turkish اجی (eji, “elder sister, grandmother”), Karachay-Balkar эгеч (egeç, “sister”). Compare also Hazaragi آجه (âja, “grandmother”), Mongolian ээж (eež, “mother”), Buryat эжы (ežy, “mother”), Kalmyk ээҗ (eej, “mother, paternal grandmother”).

اچه (äçä)

1. mother

   Synonym: انا (ana)

2. old woman

   Synonym: ماما (mama)

• Courteille, Abel Pavet de (1870) “اچه”, in Dictionnaire turk-oriental [Eastern Turkic Dictionary]‎ (in French), Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, page 6