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Demeter actually means "grain mother" not "earth mother".
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Dee-ma-ter/ deem-it-er
It is highly likely that it is phonetically and semantically linked to The Sumero-Babylonian deity 'Tiamat', of which the conceptual meaning is:
'The original body/vessel in which the salty waters were mixed and life was begat.'
Meaning mother.
The Cuneiform for Tiamat is a combination of phonetic and logogramic symbols representing words such as 'female', 'mountain/land' and 'to live', while containing the phonetic and semantic meanings MA (earth), AMA(t) (mother). Tiamat has also been linked to the word tâmtu meaning sea, but could also be linked to the proto semetic word ʾaḫwat- meaning sister.
The word Tiamat could also be linked to the Egyptian Goddess (Ma'at) as well as the PIE word for 'mother' both phonetically and semantically from which the words ‘Matter/material’literally originates, meaning substance/origin/source. From Mater/materia and possibly from demateria PIE *dem-/dom-, (used in House, Latin domus) as place of origin. Demateria not only throws up mother, but also terra, land, from PIE root * ters-, to dry. Giving rise to names such as Demeter, Demetrios, Dimitry, the name meaning mother earth. In the Arabic name Dimah, Dima/(دِيمة) means rain without thunder or lightning’ or (water of heaven or water (MU) of origin (DI). Other Arabic names that may share a similar origin include Damaa (river, sea or ocean) Dawmat/Dawmah (Turkish/Arabic) which is suggested to refer to the palm tree (Doum) native to Egypt (No found meaning for Dawmat/Dawmah/Doum, considering the uses of the Doum Palm and its current and historical importance in the area providing material, fibres, and fruit and, it could potentially mean, 'mother tree' or 'the tree of providence'.