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Nin

English translation: Nin

16:35 Mar 16, 2006
French to English translations [Non-PRO]
Social Sciences - Folklore
French term or phrase: Nin
Pet name for a senior female member of family around turn of 19th century. Maybe equivalent to Queenie or Nana in English.

The family had French-born members.
Andrew Fielding
English translation:Nin
Explanation:
Can you keep it as it is? And add in parenthesis an explanation?

Nin is also the name of an American author. Anaïs Nin
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ntaylor (X)
Local time: 14:36
Grading comment
Thanks for trying but this is extremely unlikely to be relevant
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Nin


Explanation:
Can you keep it as it is? And add in parenthesis an explanation?

Nin is also the name of an American author. Anaïs Nin

ntaylor (X)
Local time: 14:36
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
Grading comment
Thanks for trying but this is extremely unlikely to be relevant
Notes to answerer
Asker: The name was used probably before Anais Nin could read and write.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  df49f (X): ah non vous n'allez pas aussi nous volez Anaïs Nin! ;-) she was a FRENCH author and poet - though naturalized American later in her life http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaïs_Nin
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  -> Thanks, I did NOT know her origins. Good for her!
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