Previously, cognitive semantics research, studying polysemes, have often mentioned the cognitive processes that are related to meaning extension. Although the majority of the research investigates the meanings of base words, some research studies... on standard Thai and Thai dialect kinship terms suggest that /mɛ̂ː/ ‘mother’ tends, also, to be used for its metaphorical meaning. This study aims to examine the different meanings of /mɛ̂ː/ ‘mother’ in Southern Thai compounds as a polyseme that explores