Nicknames for grandfathers

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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[QUOTE=Sternvogel]
I like the fact that Norwegian and Swedish have separate words for “maternal grandfather” and “paternal grandfather”, as do Chinese and Vietnamese.
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Not so much a actual words as descriptions:

Paternal grandfather: “Farfar” = Fatherfather

Maternal grandfather: “Morfar” = Motherfather

Paternal Grandmother: “Farmor”= Fathermother

Maternal Grandmother: “Mormor”= Mothermother

Alternatively, there is “Bestefar/ Bestemor” (Best Father/Best Mother)for either one. Or even “Bestepappa/Bestemamma” (Best Daddy/Best Mommy).

Slight hijack, but I think It’s nice too.

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Why not throw in a Spanish “abuelo.”

And if you eventually run out of 'em, you can call him “Zebedee.” That’s was my grandpa’s actual name.

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Icelandic: Afi’ -grandpa 'Om-ma (think “umma”) -grandma

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My grandfather was of Italian descent, and we called him “Nonno”.

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My nephew uses Grandad and Grandude to distinguish between the two. I think Grandad is a little jealous of Grandude :smiley:

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It looks like I’m destined to be Papaya (or Papa) while my wife will be Banana (or Nana)

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**Beepa ** was my grandfather.
Another vote for Pépère.

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My uncle is just plain Pap to his grandkids. Everybody else I know is Grandpa.

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My father is “Bobo” to my nieces and nephew. The etymology is a bit convoluted.

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My daughter called my father “rah rah.”

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I always liked “popsy,” especially after the Stephen King story.

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It looks like I’m destined to be Papaya (or Papa) while my wife will be Banana (or Nana)
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These are excellent! :smiley:

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I just had the one grandfather, and he was Grandpa.

My father refused to be called grandpa and taught my oldest nephew to call him “Jaja” (Polish–roughly phonetic spelling; the actual correct spelling is something like “dzadza” or “djadja”), and that eventually got morphed into “Jaj”.

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I called my paternal grandfather Granddad (we weren’t really close) and I call my maternal grandfather Papa. Not very creative, me. :frowning:

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In these parts, it’s common to hear Grand+FirstName. Popularized by Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg’s children’s “Grand-Jackie”

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My grandfather was Poppa. Ugh, I miss him :frowning:

(I was raised by my paternal grandparents & Father. Grandmother was Mom (died when I was 18 (1991), Grandfather was Poppa (died almost 3 years ago) and my Father is Dad. I never met my maternal grandparents)

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Grandad and Abuelito FirstName…

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My wifes father was called dzai dzai . It is pronounced ja ja . We called him two jas.
Some are called teflon don.

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My grandfather on my dad’s side was Poppop. Granddad on my mom’s side was just Granddad.

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The Yiddish word for grandfather is zeyde/zayda/zeidi (I have no idea what the standard English spelling is).