onkel
Danish
/onˀkəl/
noun
Definitions
- uncle
Etymology
Borrowed from German Onkel (uncle) borrowed from French oncle derived from Latin avunculus (maternal uncle, little grandfather, mother's brother, uncle, mothers brother).
Origin
Latin
avunculus
Gloss
maternal uncle, little grandfather, mother's brother, uncle, mothers brother
Concept
Semantic Field
Kinship
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- avuncular English
- avunculicide English
- co-uncle English
- granduncle English
- great-uncle English
- step-uncle English
- stepuncle English
- uncle English
- uncle-in-law English
- uncledom English
- unclefucker English
- unclehood English
- uncleji English
- uncleless English
- unclely English
- uncleship English
- uncley English
- unclie English
- unclish English
- uncly English
- (av)unclus Latin
- *(av)unclus Latin
- *aunclum Latin
- *unclus Latin
- avunculus Latin
- avus Latin
- Erbonkel German
- Großonkel German
- Onkel German
- onkelhaft German
- nonkel Dutch, Flemish
- avunculaire French
- oncle French
- *h₂euh₂-n-tlo Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂éwh₂os Proto-Indo-European
- onkel Norwegian Bokmål
- onkel Norwegian Nynorsk
- uncle Middle English
- uncail Irish
- oncle Old French
- onklo Esperanto
- अंकल Hindi
- unchi Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- uncail Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- အန်ကယ် Burmese
- ungj Albanian
- oncle Middle French
- אָנקל Yiddish
- uncle xno
- ʻanakala Hawaiian
- angkel Bislama
- ankel Torres Strait Creole