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Nanay, “my mamma” (1)

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01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery





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Jews in Iraq today (1946) use the words nana “mamma”, and nanai “my mamma” in colloquial speech.

Bibliography

Drower 1946, 342n6Drower, E. S. “A Phylactery for Rue (An Invocation of the Personified Herb).” Orientalia 15 (1946) 324-346.

Amar Annus


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