nanu
See also: ñañu
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AsturianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
nanu m sg (feminine singular nana, masculine plural nanos, feminine plural nanes)
Related termsEdit
GermanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Low German na (“well”) + nu (“now”).[1]
PronunciationEdit
InterjectionEdit
nanu
- (chiefly Northern Germany) An expression of wonderment or confusion.
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2015 July 6, “Starts trotz Nachtflugverbot”, in Frankfurter Rundschau[1]:
- Nanu, was macht denn der Flieger da zu so später Stunde?
- Well now, what are the planes doing at so late an hour?
- Nanu, was macht denn der Flieger da zu so später Stunde?
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ReferencesEdit
- ^ 2000, Hans Meyer, Walther Kiaulehn, Siegfried Mauermann, Der richtige Berliner in Wörtern und Redensarten, page 141
HulaEdit
NounEdit
nanu
ReferencesEdit
- A Comparative Vocabulary of the Dialects of British New Guinea (1895)
- Andrew K. Pawley, Malcolm D. Ross, Austronesian Terminolgies: Continuity and Change (1994), page 458