avunculaire
French
adj
Definitions
- avuncular, relating to or like an uncle
Etymology
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
- uncle English
- (av)unclus Latin
- *(av)unclus Latin
- *aunclum Latin
- *unclus Latin
- avunculus Latin
- avus Latin
- Onkel German
- oncle French
- *h₂euh₂-n-tlo Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂éwh₂os Proto-Indo-European
- onkel Norwegian Bokmål
- onkel Norwegian Nynorsk
- oncle Old French
- unchi Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- ungj Albanian