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Subject: Re: Nahnatchka - origin, meaning?
Author: Cleveland Kent Evans   (Authenticated as clevelandkentevans)
Date: June 18, 2008 at 9:14:51 AM
Reply to: Nahnatchka - origin, meaning? 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

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