Armenian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

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 edit

Noun edit

նան (nan)

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

Declension edit

References edit

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