For all you ‘mothers’ and ‘fathers’ out there forking out $50,000 $Big $Bucks a year to educate your young Trigglies…. you may want to reconsider. Here’s how these ZeZes’ have been spending their time and your hard earned money. Just sayin’.
There are many names that exist for a mom – Mama, Mommy, Mom and Mam to name a few. The same goes for a dad – Dada, Daddy, Papa, Pops and so on. But what about the non-binary parents?
- Baba- based on ‘Mama/Dada/Papa’. Also means dad in some languages and grandmother in others.
- Dama- ‘dada’ and ‘mama’ intertwined.
- Mada- ‘mama’ and ‘dada’ intertwined.
- Maddy- ‘mom’ and ‘daddy’ intertwined.
- Makua- Hawaiian for ‘parent’.
- Mapa- ‘Mama’ and ‘Papa’ intertwined.
- Mātua- Māori (Eastern Polynesian) for ‘parent’.
- Moddy- ‘mommy’ and ‘daddy’ intertwined.
- Moppa / Mopa- ‘Mommy’ and ‘Papa’ intertwined.
- Nari / Nary- taken from ‘non-bi(nary)’.
- Nibi- taken from ‘non-binary’.
- Nini- taken from the N in ‘non-binary’.
- Nobi- taken from the term ‘(no)n-(bi)nary’.(Pronounced as no-bee not nob-ee!)
- Nody- ‘non-binary’ and ‘daddy’ intertwined.
- Nomy- ‘non-binary’ and ‘mommy’ intertwined.(Can be pronounced as nom-ie or no-me.)
- Noni- taken from ‘(non)-b(i)nary’. Also the name of a plant. (Pronounced non-ee.)
- Nopa- taken from ‘(no)n-binary (pa)rent’.
- Nory- taken from ‘(no)n-bina(ry)’.
- Obi- Yoruba (African) for ‘parent’. Can also mean ‘heart’ when translated.
- O’Pa- abbreviation of ‘other parent’.
- Pama- ‘papa’ and ‘mama’ intertwined.
- Pare- Catalan for ‘parent’.
- Pom-Pom- ‘papa’ and ‘mom’ intertwined.
- Zari / Zary- ‘Ze/Zir’ pronouns and ‘non-bin(ary)’ intertwined.
- Zaza- a mashup of ‘mama/dada/papa’ and the gender neutral pronouns ‘Ze/Zir’.
- Zeze- taken from the gender neutral pronouns ‘Ze/Zir’.