νέννος

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Ancient Greek

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Etymology

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Onomatopoeic word; compare Latin nonnus (monk; old person), Proto-Celtic *nana (grandmother), Sanskrit नना (nanā, mother, mama), Russian ня́ня (njánja, nurse). Within Greek, we found νόννος (nónnos, father), νάννας (nánnas, uncle) and νίννη (nínnē, grandmother).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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νέννος (nénnosm (genitive νέννου); second declension

  1. maternal or paternal brother, uncle
  2. maternal grandfather

Inflection

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Further reading

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