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nanny

English

Etymology

(1795) It has often been assumed that the English term was originally a widespread child's word for "female adult other than mother" (compare Greek ????? (nánna, aunt), nanna). See also Welsh nain (grandmother).


On the other hand, according to recent research of the Dutch historical linguists Hans Beelen en Nicoline van der Sijs (published in Onze Taal, September 2018), on which see also etymologiebank.nl, in Dutch), the term nanny (and the British colloquial nan for "grandmother") may actually be eponymous, viz. being originally an affective form (i.e. a hypocoristic) of the popular female name Anne. The Dutch statesman and scientist Constantijn Huygens Jr. made the following observation during one of his many sojourns in England (noted in his Journaal, dated 13 December 1692): "Yesterday I received 10lb of chocolate again, from niece Becker, and she had Nanny, her maid, bringing me the money that she had owed me" (Gisteren kreegh 10 ? choccolate wederom van nicht Becker, en had Nanny, haer meidt, geweest om mij 't geldt, dat van haer hebben most, te brengen). Beelen and van der Sijs therefore assumed that "since many female domestic servants were named "Nan" or "Nanny", the name became a sobriquet for the profession of "maid, childminder" in the 18th century". ("Omdat veel vrouwelijke huisbedienden in het Engels de voornaam Nan of Nanny hadden, verschoof de betekenis in de achttiende eeuw naar die van een beroepsaanduiding: ‘meid, kindermeisje’")

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?næni/
  • Rhymes: -æni

Noun

nanny (plural nannies)

  1. A child's nurse.
  2. (colloquial) A grandmother.
  3. (US, colloquial) A godmother.
  4. A female goat.
    • 1983, Douglas H. Chadwick, A Beast the Color of Winter: The Mountain Goat Observed, Bison Books (2002), ?ISBN, page 159:
      Breeding is a consuming goal, and the ascendance of the sex drive is nearly as apparent in the behavior of a mountain goat billy. So given over is he to following and defending a succession of nannies as he searches for one in heat (estrus), he loses interest in food altogether; []
    • 2005, Richard Cannings, The Rockies: A Natural History, Greystone Books (2005), ?ISBN, page 103:
      Nannies and billies look very similar, both having dangerously sharp, curved black horns.
    • 2013, Janet Hurst, The Whole Goat Handbook: Recipes, Cheese, Soap, Crafts & More, Voyageur Press (2013), ?ISBN, page 28:
      A farmer friend keeps a video camera in the barn so she can turn on her goat cam and observe her animals at any time of the day or night. A baby monitor picks up the sounds of a nanny when she goes into labor—if the nanny is one who changes the usual pitch of her voice or nervously bleats during kidding.

Synonyms

  • (female goat): nanny goat
  • (child's nurse): housemother

Derived terms

  • nanny state
  • manny (male nanny)
  • nannify

Related terms

  • nanna
  • nannification

Translations

Verb

nanny (third-person singular simple present nannies, present participle nannying, simple past and past participle nannied)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To serve as a nanny.
  2. (transitive, derogatory) To treat like a nanny's charges; to coddle. [From the mid-20th c.]

Jamaican Creole

Noun

nanny (plural: nanny dem, quantified: nanny)

  1. Alternative spelling of Nanny.

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ann

English

Alternative forms

  • annat

Etymology

From Latin annata (income of a year; income of half a year), from annus (year): compare French annate (annats).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /æn/
  • (Scotland) IPA(key): /an/

Noun

ann (plural anns)

  1. Obsolete spelling of annate

Anagrams

  • NAN, NaN, Nan, nan

Haitian Creole

Etymology

Contraction of annou, from French à nous.

Adverb

ann

  1. Contraction of annou; let's

Irish

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /aun??/
  • (Galway) IPA(key): /??n??/
  • (Mayo, Ulster) IPA(key): /an??/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish and, from Proto-Indo-European *h?n?dó

Adverb

ann

  1. there
Derived terms
  • bí ann

Pronoun

ann (emphatic annsan)

  1. third-person singular masculine of i: in him, in it m

Etymology 2

Reduced form of inmhe

Noun

ann

  1. Only used in in ann

Further reading

  • "ann" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • Entries containing “ann” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

References


Ladin

Etymology

From Latin annus.

Noun

ann m (plural agn)

  1. year

Lombard

Etymology

From Latin annus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?an?/

Noun

ann m (usually invariable, plural agn)

  1. year

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aun??/, /ã?n??/

Etymology

From Old Irish and. Cognates include Irish ann and Manx ayn.

Adverb

ann

  1. there
  2. in existence, alive

Derived terms

  • ann am
  • ann an

Pronoun

ann

  1. third-person singular masculine of an; in him, in it

Inflection

References

  • “ann” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
  • Malcolm MacLennan, editor (1925) A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: John Grant

Vilamovian

Noun

ann

  1. plural of ?n

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