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In Hawaiian :
Grandmother - Tutu Wahine (Whahine being woman)
Grandfather - Tutu Kane (Kane - means man or male)
Both shortened to Tutu if just one present.
Wahine = Wha-he-nay
Kane = khan-ay
My maternal Grantparents were Gramma and Grampa.
My father's parents died when Dad was 12 so no confusion.
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Note: To be absolutely correct tutu is really kuku but prononced and generally written as tutu (too-too) The definitave Pukui Elbert Hawaiian Dictionary notes this is apparently a "new" word as it is not found in the ancient Hawaian chants.
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A friend's grandchildren call her Nana.
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>>tutu is really kuku but prononced and generally written as tutu (too-too)
The sound is kind of halfway between a /t/ and a /k/, isn't it?
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Hindi:
Maternal grandmum: Nani
Maternal grandad: Nana
Paternal grandmum: Dadi
Paternal grandad: Dada
Tamil:
No genealogical distinction
Grandmums: Pati
Grandads: Thatha
Malyalam:
Mum: amma; dad: acchan (cch, as in, change)
Maternal grandmum: ammamma
Maternal grandad: ammachhan
Paternal grandmum: ?? (Ravi, help!)
Paternal grandad: Acchacchan
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Used to call one of my grandmothers Nenah, but I don't know where that came from.
I would hazard a guess that this is a form of Nanna - a very common Englisj form for Grandmother.
In Northam[tonshire, the usual form was Nanna and Pap or Pappa.
(One's grandson was commonly referred to as, "Moi Lil' ole bwoy.") ... and there aren't any typos there - that's the way they said it!
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Acchamma.
But we also had, as a kind of funny one:
Muthashi (grandmum) and
Muthasha (grandad)
I knew they existed as words, but never quite figured out how they worked in the scheme of things. In any case, we kids picked up for my father's parents what my parents called them, so they wer Accha and Amma to us. And my mother's father was so proud of the fact that we were kind of English ("An Englishman never lies. His word is his bond" And he wore a Hitler mmoustache!) that they were always called Grandad and Granny. Hey, what's the point of being consistent when it's family?
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On my mother's side they were Nana and Grandpa. On my father's side they were Grandma and Grandad. Go figure ...
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A former roommate called her Estonian grandmother "Vanna" (with a short A, not pronounced like Vanna White).
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well, I never knew my paternal grandparents, nor my maternal grandfather, but my maternal grandmother was Granny. my kids call their paternal grandparents, Gramma and Grampa, and their maternal, Grandpa and Grammie. my niece calls her maternal grandparents(my parents) Old Hoot and Coot... 
formerly known as etaoin...
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So who's the Hoot and who's the Coot
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My Greek chum called her grandmother YaYa.
Don't remember what Grandfather was called.
I have YaYa's recipe for spanikopitas - yum yum.
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