uncle (the brother, brother-in-law, or male cousin or cousin-in-law of either parent) · unknown or any male person, dude, guy · friend, mate, pal, man, bro
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish tio, from Late Latin thius, from Ancient Greek θεῖος (theîos). Compare Italian zio, Galician tío and Portuguese tio, Sardinian tiu.
köken: Inherited from Late Latin thius, from Ancient Greek θεῖος (theîos). Compare Spanish tío, Portuguese tio, Sicilian ziu, Sardinian tiu or tziu, Venetan sio.
uncle (brother of someone's father or mother, or an aunt's husband) · uncle (term of address for any adult) · an employee who performs a given activity
çekim: çoğul tios
eş: titio, avúnculo
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese tio, from Late Latin thīus, from Ancient Greek θεῖος (theîos). Compare Galician and Spanish tío, Italian zio, Sardinian tiu.
köken: Sino-Korean word from 三 (“three”) + 寸 (“degrees of kinship”). A degree of kinship is the relationship between a parent and a child, so an uncle is three degrees of kinship away from the speaker (speaker to parent, parent to grandparent, grandparent to uncle).
uncle · respectful form of address for any elder man
çekim: çoğul अंकलों
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwh₂os Latin avunculus Old French unclebor. Middle English uncle English unclebor. Hindi अंकल Borrowed from English uncle.
köken: By surface analysis, avus + -unculus. Actually from an n-stem noun suffixed with -culus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewh₂-on-, a dialectal diminutive of *h₂éwh₂ō (“grandfather, adult male relative other than one’s father”) (whence also Proto-Celtic *awontīr (“uncle”) and possibly Proto-Germanic *awô (“grandfather”), from *h₂éwh₂os (“older male relative”)), whence also avus (“grandfather”).