Where does “nanna” come from?

nanna (English) comes from Old Norse Nanna, from Proto-Germanic *nanþ-.

nanna (English): grandmother

Definitions

  1. grandmother

Ancestry of “nanna”, step by step

nanna traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Old Norse Nanna

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old NorseNanna—
2Proto-Germanic*nanþ-—

via Proto-Celtic nana

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Celticnanagrandmother

via Italian nanna

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiannannabeddy-byes, bye-byes

Words derived from “nanna”

Every word from Proto-Germanic *nanþ- →Every word from Old Norse Nanna →
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