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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