aunt (sister of someone's father or mother, or an uncle's wife) · aunt (colloquial term of address for an older woman) · colloquial term of address for any female person
çekim: çoğul tias
eş: titia, âmita, tia-avó, solteirona
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese tia, from Late Latin thīa, from Ancient Greek θεία (theía).
a middle-aged or older (and usually more distant) female relative, an aunt · Used to address older women in general. · a middle-aged or older woman (in general), an older lady (possibly implying outmoded views, clothing, or the like)
çekim: çoğul tanter · tamlayan tants
köken: From French tante, from Old French ante (nominative form), from Latin amita, diminutive of Proto-Indo-European *amma-, *ama- (“mother”), a lost baby-word of the papa-type.
Mrs (title of a married woman) · madam, ma'am (form of address for a married woman, a ranking female individual, or a not young female stranger) · lady (a respectful word for a not young woman)
köken: Inherited from Malay puan, from clipping of perempuan (“female human being; woman”). In sense of a polite form of address for a woman or lady, mostly replaced by nyonya.
aunt (father's sister or mother's sister; father's brother's wife or mother's brother's wife) · aunt (a grown woman, in relation to a child, even if not the child's real aunt)
çekim: çoğul tantes · tamlayan tantes
eş: mātesmāsa, tēvamāsa
köken: Borrowed from German Tante (“aunt”), itself a borrowing from French tante (“aunt”). This borrowing was first mentioned in 18th-century Latvian texts.
elder sister of one's parent. · a title or term of address for any elderly woman, especially that of relative age to an elder sister of one's parent. · aging woman.
köken: From Proto-Tai *paːꟲ (“parent's older sister”). Cognate with Lao ປ້າ (pā), Lü ᦔᦱᧉ (ṗaa²), Shan ပႃႈ (pāa), Tai Dam ꪜ꫁ꪱ, Ahom 𑜆𑜡 (pā), Zhuang baj, Saek ป̂า.
lady in a wealthy family with servants · Mrs., ma'am
çekim: çoğul zonja
köken: From *džotnja, from Proto-Albanian *dzwāptnjā, from earlier *w(i)tspátnjā, from Proto-Indo-European *wiḱ-pót-nih₂ (“clan matriarch”), from *wiḱpótis (compare Lithuanian viešpatni (“lady”)), compound of *weyḱ- (“clan, kindred”) (compare Ancient Greek οἰκία (oikía, “house (clan)”), Avestan 𐬬𐬌𐬚 (viθ, “royal court”)) and *pótnih₂ (compare Ancient Greek πότνια (pótnia)), feminine of *pótis (“master”).…
aunt (mother's side), maternal aunt, a sister of one's mother mother’s cousin
çekim: çoğul დეიდები · tamlayan დეიდის
köken: From დედა (deda, “mother”) + და (da, “sister”). Like in მამიდა (mamida), genitive case marker part ს (s) disappeared before დ (d). Root დ (d) is lost due to two vowels in the side.
First attested in the Jīlín lèishì (鷄林類事 / 계림유사), 1103, as Late Old Korean 丫子彌 (Yale: *àcómí). In the hangul script, first attested in the Yongbi eocheon'ga (龍飛御天歌 / 용비어천가), 1447, as Middle Korean 아ᄌᆞ〮미〮 (Yale: àcómí).