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Very rare dwarf seems to have in addition to the Valtellinese stock also one in the La Spezia area, Nani, which seems to be limited to northern Italy, is quite rare, Nano is typical of Piedmont and Liguria, should derive from an apheretic modification of the name Giovanni, but it is also It is possible to derive from the northern dialect words nana, dwarves, dwarf, with which they were identified in an affectionate way with the children, with the meaning of small, but with affection, not so much for stature, We remember a bishop of Brescia named Giovanni Nani , Venetian. additions provided by Giacomo Ganza / Villa di Tirano (SO) According to recent studies conducted on the surnames Nana and Nani originating from Lanzada, a town in the Valmalenco (Sondrio), they hypothesize that the aforementioned cognom forms could derive from Giovanni or a supernominal form that refers to at short stature. (dwarfs in dialect is used with the meaning of small)
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