nannu

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Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Sicilian nannu.

Pronunciation

Noun

nannu m (plural nanniet or nannujiet or nannijiet, feminine nanna)

  1. grandfather
    Synonym: ġidd
    • 2018, Antoinette Borg, Amina, Merlin Publishers, →ISBN:
      Imnalla għajjatlu Fredu u kellu jwaqqaf l-eloġju ta’ nannuh, għax naħseb l-istorja li kien imiss kienet li għandu xi gżira privata.
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  2. Used to show respect when addressing old men.
    Alternative form: nann

Inflection

    Inflected forms
Personal-pronoun-
including forms 		singular plural
m f
1st person nannuwi nannuna
2nd person nannuk nannukom
3rd person nannuh nannuha nannuhom

Sicilian

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Particularly: "of sense 2, something that isn't Peppe Nappa"
Peppe Nappa, a float of the Sciacca Carnival, lit up at the end of the holiday, like a nannu (sense 2) would have been.

Etymology

Compare Italian nonno.

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Noun

nannu m (plural nanni, feminine nanna)

  1. grandfather
    jiri comu li ganghi di me nannu ― to shake, to be unstable (literally, “to be like my grandfather's teeth”)
    li cartuleggi di so nannu ― past things (literally, “one's grandfather's old papers”)
    Chi ura di chiànciri a me nannu!
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    Cu voli a so nannu si lu preja.
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    Si me nannu nun fussi mortu, ancora sarrìa vivu.
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  3. Local folkloric figure personification of Carnival, a dummy resembling a devil that is lit up at the end of the festivities.
    nannu (di) Carnilivari
    mòriri lu nannu ― to burn the nannu
  4. (colloquial) Term to address old men. grandpa, gramps

Descendants

  • → Maltese: nannu

References

  • Traina, Antonino (1868) “nannu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, pages 2643–2644
  • Pasqualino (c. 1790) “nannu”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 3, page 241
  • Mortillaro, Vincenzo (1862) “nànnu”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (in Italian), page 562
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