bubbe

The story

1. Proto-Slavic · derived from*baba“old woman”
2. Middle High German · derived frombābe“old woman”
3. Slavic · derived from
4. Yiddish · borrowed fromבאָבע“grandmother”
5. English todaybubbe

Borrowed from Yiddish באָבע (bobe, “grandmother”), and then either from a Slavic language or from eastern Middle High German bābe (“old woman”), both from Proto-Slavic *baba (“old woman”) and ultimately imitative of a child’s babbling. Doublet of baba.