What is the Viking word for grandma?

Scandinavian Words for Grandmother
In Swedish, mormor
mormor
maternal grandmother: mother's mother.
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means, “mother's mother,” and farmor means, “father's mother.” It's the same in Danish, but they have another word for just “grandmother,” which is bedstemor.
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What do Norwegians call their grandmas?

A grandmother is typically called bestemor (grandmother, literally ”best mother”), while a grandfather is bestefar. Note that Norwegian, unlike English, has special words for ”mother's parents” – mormor (”mother-mother”) and morfar – and for ”father's parents”: farmor and farfar.
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What is Celtic for grandma?

-Irish: In Gaelic, grandmother translates to “Seanmháthair,” which means old mother. Some other popular Irish grandmother names are “Mhamó,” “Mamó,” “Maimeó” and “Móraí.”
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Does Nani mean grandma?

Grandma: Nani (maternal), Nana (paternal) Grandpa: Dadi (maternal), Dada (paternal) "In our Indian culture, 'nani' is maternal grandmother, and 'dadi' is maternal grandfather.
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How do you say grandma in Swiss?

In Swiss German, the most used word for grandma is Grosi. In Low German, it is Grootmoder for grandmother and Groosma or Groosmutta for grandma.
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What is the coolest grandma name?

50 Grandma Names
  1. Memaw. This unique name for grandma is popular in the southern United States!
  2. Nanny. Much like the popular nanny Mary Poppins, this is a perfect name for a grandma who is sensible and sweet.
  3. Nonna. This quirky name means “grandma” in Italian.
  4. Bubbe. ...
  5. Abuela. ...
  6. Glamma. ...
  7. Lovey. ...
  8. Lola.
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What is the Cajun French word for grandmother?

MawMaw. With its French Cajun roots, “MawMaw” is widely used throughout Louisiana.
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What do Scots call grandparents?

-Scottish: In Scottish Gaelic, the word for grandpa is “Seanair,” but other commonly used Scottish grandfather names include “Grandad” and “Grandpa.” -Spanish: In Spanish, grandfathers are most commonly called “Abuelo” but can also be called “Abuelito” or “Tito.”
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What's the Czechoslovakian name for grandma?

Czech. The Czech word for grandmother is babička or bába.
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What do French call grandparents?

The most common translations in dictionaries for grandparents are the literal translations of 'grandmother' and 'grandfather'. In French, these terms are, respectively: grand-mère and grand-père, or grand-maman and grand-papa. These terms are also commonly used in speech and writing.
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What are the top 10 grandma names?

Modern Grandma Names
  • Bunny.
  • Gaga.
  • Gigi.
  • Kitty.
  • Mimi.
  • Minnie.
  • Pippy.
  • Queenie.
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What is Italian name for grandmother?

Nonna and Nonno

In Italy, grandma and grandpa are known as nonna and nonno. Many Italian-Americans also use these names or the variation, nonni.
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What do grandkids call their grandmother?

According to Name Nerd, the most popular nicknames for grandparents are Bubbe, Nana, Grandma, Granny, Gran, Gram, Grammy, Papa, Grandpa, Granda, Granddad, Gramps. Grandparent names come a very wide array. Many times, the names literally come from the mouth's of babes and they stick.
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What does Mimi mean grandma?

According to Babycenter.com, the following are the most popular grandparent names. For grandma, we have Nana, Grammy, Granny, Mimi, Gram, Nanny, Oma, Mamaw and Gran. For grandpa, there's Papa, Granddad, Gramps, Pop-Pop, Poppy, Papaw, Pop, Opa and Pappy.
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What do they call grandma in England?

In Britain, Ireland, United States, Australia, New Zealand and, particularly prevalent in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Nan, Nana, Nanna, Nanny, Gran and Granny and other variations are often used for grandmother in both writing and speech.
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What is grandma in Blackfoot?

Blackfoot Word of the Week - Kaasii (Grandmother)
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How do you say grandma in Mohawk?

Akhso – grandmother (when talking to her).
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What is grandma in Ojibwe?

gookomis your grandmother (2s-3s)
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Does Yaya mean grandma?

The most commonly used Greek term for grandmother is yia-yia, sometimes rendered as ya-ya. These may also be spelled as separate words: yia yia and ya ya — or without the hyphen — yiayia and yaya. These are, of course, phonetic or Americanized spelling since the Greek language uses a different alphabet from English.
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What is the Viking word for grandfather?

afi (noun m.) 'grandfather, man'
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Why is grandma called Nana?

Etymology. The word nan for grandma is a shortening of the word nana. Both of these words probably are child pronunciations of the word nanny. Etymonline describes this word as originating as a child's word for "female adult other than mother".
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What do the Irish call their grandparents?

Ireland (Gaelic)

While maimeó anddaideó are the words used to address a grandmother or grandfather, there are a few different words for grandparents in Irish. For example, there are máthair chríona, which translates to “wise mother,” and athair críonna which translates to “wise father.”
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