I borrowed a Japanese children's book from the library to practice and of
course I'm stuck on the title. It is called ごあいさつなあに。I know the first part
means greetings or welcome, but I can't find any information online about the
ending part tacked on. I figure its a colloquial type of thing.
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grammar definitions
～なあに at the end of a sentence
It's just a singsongy way of saying the word 何{なに} ("what").

There seems to be a whole series of these picture books with titles ending in
なあに, which would all translate into English as something like "What's [X]". So
there's おてんきなあに "What's the Weather?", このかたちなあに "What's This Shape?" and so
forth. This one, ごあいさつなあに, would be something along the lines of "What are
Greetings?"
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