ES - Great News

Bill Osterheim Polydore at worldnet.att.net
Tue Dec 28 03:23:26 PST 1999


Well, modern Norwegan for maternal grandfather is morfar, and maternal
grandmother is mormor. As you can probably guess from this, mor means 
mother and far means father. They just stick them together to add
up the generations.

Polydore!


Chris Harper wrote:
> 
> At 10:21 PM 12/27/99 -0600, you wrote:
> 
> >    Arabella's new name will be Grammy, Fearghus doesn't have one yet.
> Granddaddy and Papa are out of the question... any other suggestions?
> >
> >Newest........Grammy
> 
> Congrats!  Well, how about GranDee (pronounced GraunDee) or a more common
> word, Grandad or what is the French word for Grandfather?  Or is there a
> Norse word for Grandfather?  Then just for grins you could always go with a
> more southern term,  Big Daddy!! Enough of those thoughts.  I am so tired I
> am getting silly.
> Goodnight,
> Bice
> 
>         Chris Harper
>       -bice at flash.net-
> 
>         HO!HO!HO!  Merry Chrisitmas
> 
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