նան

Armenian

Alternative forms

Etymology

According to Martirosyan, a nursery word possibly of Proto-Indo-European origin. Compare Persian نانا (nânâ, mother, mamma), Shughni на̄н (nān, mother; grandmother), Khotanese [script needed] (nāni, mother), Sanskrit नना (nanā́-, mother, mum), Serbo-Croatian nana, nena (mother), Ancient Greek νάννη (nánnē, aunt), Albanian nënë (mother), Welsh nain (grandmother), etc.

Pronunciation

Noun

նան • (nan)

  1. (dialectal) mother
  2. (dialectal) grandmother

Declension

References

  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 499
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