A couple found a small child which had got separated from its parents.
They liked the child so much that they wished to take care of it as their own child.
The wife said," We do not know in which language to communicate with the child"
The husband had a brilliant brainstorm and said,
"We will wait until the child learn to talk and
then we can find out what was its mother tongue!"
Were they forgetting these facts that.......
Mother Tongue is what the parents speaks at home!
And it is the first language any child will learn!!!
The German word for Mother Tongue is Muttersprache.
So naturally, Mutter = Mother and Mutty = Mommy
Grossmutter = Grandmother = Oma
GrossVater = Grandfather = Opa
Grosseltern = Grandparents.
So naturally Eltern = Parents.
By now you must have guessed that Gross = big, tall, large, great.