Description:

The term 'oppa' is an intimate and affectionate word for grandfather (compare to the native word 'onno', attached, which means 'grandparent'), and translates words like 'grandpa' or 'poppy'. Along with the word for grandma, 'omma', it is thought to have been borrowed from German and then spread throughout the language during the middle period, because it was codified as a legitimate Common word during the early modern peiod.

It is generally only used as a noun.