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27-DEC-2009

Grandmother in other languages

Afrikaans ouma
Albanian gjyshe
Basque amona
Belarusen babka
Bisaya (dialect of the Philippines) apohan nga babaye
Bulgarian баба (baba)
Cebuano apohang babae
Cheyenne (Native American) Neške'e
Croatian baba
Czech babicka
Danish bedstemoder
Dutch grootmoeder
Esperanto avino
Estonian vanaema
Finnish mummo
French grand-mère
Frisian (spoken in Germany and the Netherlands) beppe
Gaelic seanmhair
Galician (romance language similar to Portugues) avoa
German Oma
Greek gigia
Guarani (Spoken in Paraguay and in adjacent portions of Argentina,
Brazil, and Bolivia) jarýi
Hawiian Kupuna wahine
Hungarian nagyanya
Ilongo (Philippine Dialect)lola
Indonesian nenek
IñupiaQ (Eskimo Dialect)aanaga
Italian nonna
Kamilaroi/ Gamilaraay (Australian Aboriginal) bathii
Latin Avunculus
Latvian VECAMATE
Maltese nanna
Mapunzugun kuku
Maori kuia
Odawa (Canadian Indian) nookmis
Ojibwe (Canadian Indian) nookomis
Polish BABKA
Portuguese avó
Romanian BUNICA
Sanskrit mAtRka
Slovak BABICKA
Slovenian stara mama
Spanish Abuela
Swahili bibi
Swedish FARMOR
Tagalog nuno
Tibetan a phyi
Turkish ANNEANNE
Ukranian babusia
Urdu dadi
Vietnamese danh từ
Wagiman (Australian Aboriginal language) ngal-ngabuju
Xhosa (Language spoken Southeastern South Africa) umakhulu
Yiddish BOBE

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Jola Dziubinska29-Dec-2009 20:47
Lovely interpretation, Laine.
But in Polish we never use the oficial BABKA (like grandmother) we rather say babcia (gramma)
Carl and Racine Erland29-Dec-2009 04:16
This is great...love the quote and all the translations.
Maaike Huizer28-Dec-2009 14:12
This is so lovely. And it feels like you made this for me. On December 19th, my second grandchild (a lovely girl) was born.

BTW: I hope your Christmas has been very merry!!
Doug Cruden28-Dec-2009 09:16
LOL, that's so right :o))
Jackdad27-Dec-2009 23:03
you'll be winning the pub quiz with all those languages Laine. Great shot and sentiment.
wernere0127-Dec-2009 19:40
LOL. Given to you by your grandchildren?
borisalex27-Dec-2009 16:31
Excellent! Voted!
Guest 27-Dec-2009 13:39
:) True!
Guest 27-Dec-2009 13:27
This is gorgeous and yes I am a grootmoeder,love it and wish you and yours all the best for 2010.
Bernard Davis27-Dec-2009 10:33
NIce fun shot.
Guest 27-Dec-2009 08:54
Beautiful!
Bryan Murahashi27-Dec-2009 06:06
Fabulous quote and image.
Yvonne27-Dec-2009 05:03
Love the fridge magnet and all the Grandma's you listed!
joanteno27-Dec-2009 02:44
how true..
Barbara Heide27-Dec-2009 02:10
very sweet! I might need this one day!!!
Martha Albuquerque27-Dec-2009 01:40
Beautiful Laine :)~ Avó in Portuguese~ yeah~ :)
carol j. phipps27-Dec-2009 01:27
Excellent quote!
Cindi Smith27-Dec-2009 01:06
Love that because Grandmas are the best!!!!! That is soooooo true!
Coleen Perilloux Landry27-Dec-2009 01:01
For sure! I have a niece who is Oma.
Stephanie27-Dec-2009 00:54
Clever caption here Laine! :^)
Kevin Chester27-Dec-2009 00:26
Fine message , and a great bit of research into the word Grandma. Both my kids are round grandmas right now. Bliss :-)
Guest 27-Dec-2009 00:03
love it, Laine
Phillip Normanton26-Dec-2009 23:46
Heehee. Grannytastic :o)
Faye White26-Dec-2009 23:38
Grandmas rule!!
Máire Uí Mhaicín26-Dec-2009 23:36
:0) From one seanmháthair to another: being perpatetic has its upside and downsides!
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