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.
köken: From French oncle, with a prothetic n- via metanalysis, from den onkel and other pronominal and adjectival forms with masculine -en in spoken Flemish.
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”).