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Re: Nahnatchka - origin, meaning?
in reply to a message by Dinah
It's likely that this is just someone's respelling or mishearing of Ninotchka, inspired by the 1939 Greta Garbo movie. Ninotchka is a Russian diminutive of Nina. http://www.filmsite.org/nino.html

This message was edited 7/3/2008, 6:29 AM

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