Word for "Aunt'

This may sound a little strange, but we made up a name out of the sounds in my friend's name. For example, her name is Mittie, so my son calls her MiMi. It's not quite the mouthful as Auntie, but still affectionate.

what is her name? i have a friend that is very close to me and her granddaughter calles me "ya ya" (pronounced yaw yaw) my name is T. and she couldn't say it so that is what she came up with. i actually like it and miss her calling me that. i don't get to see her much since we moved.

Hi H.
In Italian, the word for aunt is Zia. Let me know if this helps
T.

My best friend is the same way for me. My kids call her Auntie and my youngest calls her Nina because that's his godmother also. You could try that.

my good girlfriends and i share in the idea of using "miss" before our name. my son's call my good friends miss jessica, miss becky etc. just an idea. it's kind of a throwback to the old south civil war era i guess you could say, where it was of a way of being informal yet showed the respect for a woman who you wouldn't ordinarily say ma'am to all the time.

Nana, Ta Ta, Uma
Tia- Spanish
Zia - Italian
Tita - Filipino
Bah san - Japanese
Tante- French

You can call her " Tia" spanish for aunt. You pronounce it thea. We have alot of friends that are like aunts to our boys. Hope this works. I also you use short nicknames for instance my dad's ex wife is laurie and they call her LALA. Have a good day!!

you will probably get this one alot....tia which is spanish
the filipino equivalent is tita, pronounced teetah
or how about adding "ie" to aunt, making it auntie or perhaps making a fun new name out of the friends name...for instance, my name is M. and i get called aunt maa or maamaa...well that is all i can think of for now, good luck with our name search

"Nina" is what we choose to name our "a-s-2ndm-f" name all. Our sons have a "Nino & Nina" basically growing up I was raised catholic & I am hispanic we had God Parents, in spanish Nino/Nina. When we where batized into the catholic church we had these God parents take on a very important role.

I grew up, I am Christian & we still loved the idea of having a symbolic/meaningful relationship embraced by calling these people in our lives a special name. Which to us means their Godparents/people that will love them like we do/their aunt/uncle, friend/caretaker...all the titles we have as parents etc.

Hope this gives you an idea.

A.

In spanish we have a word, comadre. This could be translated as co mother, but it is more than that. The honor of being comadre means that you are closer than a friend, almost a sister, a proxy for mom and you know that you could rely on that person in a time of need, not necessarily financially, but emotionally, in a positive spiritual way.

Ok you would call her comadre, your child would refer to her as padrina. It usually is used for the God parents or sponsors in religious ceremonies, but does not have to fall in that context.
Maybe it helps.
M.

We have a family memeber to who is just as close... My family is from Denmark so we call her Tante = aunt. Hope this helps

HI I have a best friend that my son calls auntie but another friend of the family he calls her "Gigi" and another good nickname is "Meme". Hope this helps.

The Mexicans use Tia. It is easy for the children to say and it applies to any elder close woman like you describe. I have seen it used that way time and time again and it sounds pretty.

Well I use Auntie but that is close....My husbadn is Latin so the spanish word for Aunt is Tia...(Tea uh)

I have a friend whose grandkids call her "Honey". I have another friend whose kids call their grandmother "Granny Sunshine"...I think once you start using whatever name you choose it will begin to sound like she always had that name. Depending on your friend's first name, I think "Tia (name)" could work. Or just Tia.

Bella - it means beatiful in Italian. My sister didn't want to be called anything "grandma, granny, nana, etc." so her grandchildren call her Bella.