Ma Fia

When the mafia was formed and it's name given they called it the mafia. In the Itallian language the phrase ma fia is my daughter. The cheiftan of the original clan may have lost his daughter to the invaders and was tributing her memory to the world knowing that the name would survive through the ages. The true meaning of the mafia's name and why it forms the phrase "my daughter" will never be known.