•uncle (a form of address for an older man, especially by children or in case of great age difference) · uncle (any adult man) · (chiefly with a possessive suffix) synonym of nagybácsi (“uncle”, the brother or brother-in-law of one’s parent)
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.
middle-aged elder male · uncle · mister, gentleman
köken: First attested as Late Old Korean 丫查秘 in the Jīlín lèishì (鷄林類事 / 계림유사), 1103. In the hangul script, first attested in the Dictionnaire coréen-français (韓佛字典 / 한불자전), 1880, as Early Modern Korean 아자씨 (Yale: acassi).
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.
paternal uncle, uncle · man; any (adult) man who is not a close relative; adult male stranger
çekim: çoğul sedät · tamlayan sedän
köken: From Proto-Finnic *setä, from Proto-Uralic *śečä. Cognate with Northern Sami čeahci, Erzya чиче (čiče), Moksha щ- (šč-) in щене (ščene, “uncle”), щака (ščaka, “aunt”).
eye. · one who does something with an eye or the eyes, especially as a profession. · anything that is like an eye, as in terms of appearance or functions: hole; opening; aperture; etc.
köken: From Proto-Tai *p.taːᴬ (“eye”). In Southwesten Tai, cognate with Northern Thai ᨲᩣ, Lao ຕາ (tā), Lü ᦎᦱ (ṫaa), Tai Dam ꪔꪱ, Shan တႃ (tǎa), Aiton တ︀ႃ (tā), Ahom 𑜄𑜠 (ta) or 𑜄𑜡 (tā). In Central Tai, cognate with Nong Zhuang ta. In Northern Tai, cognate with Bouyei dal, Zhuang da. In other Tai, cognate with Zuojiang Zhuang ha (Longzhou and Daxin dialects) or ta as in makta etc. (Ningming and Chongzuo…
honorific or endearing word for (male) family members; such as older brother, uncle, cousin or another respected, older male · honorific or endearing for father · honorific or endearing for an unrelated/foreign older male (cf. english "aunty/uncle")
çekim: çoğul baca
köken: * Svane suggests a borrowing from Serbo-Croatian baca, a children's pronunciation of braca (“older brother”). * Meyer and Çabej link it to baç (“head shepherd”) (compare baci). * Another possible source is Turkish bacı (“sister”). * Orel considers it an inherited word from Proto-Albanian *batja, related to Proto-Slavic *baťa (see Serbo-Croatian baća (“father, brother, ancestor”) and Proto-Slavic…
köken: Inherited from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *kuʔ (“elder brother, senior male relative”). See Old Chinese 舅 (OC *ɡuʔ, “maternal uncle; brother-in-law”) for more cognates (STEDT).