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Nonna vs Nanna - What's the difference?

nonna | nanna |

As nouns the difference between nonna and nanna

is that nonna is grandmother while nanna is grandmother.

As a proper noun Nanna is

a goddess, the wife of Balder.

nonna

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (dialectal) grandmother
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=July 29, author=Alex Witchel, title=Borscht: What Would Nana Say?, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=An article last month in The Daily News talked about Enoteca Maria, a restaurant in Staten Island that has no professional chef, just a rotating roster of eight nonnas , or grandmothers, from different regions of Italy. }} ----

    nanna

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • grandmother
    • ----