oncle

Catalan

Alternative forms

• onclo

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Vulgar Latin *(av)unclus, from Latin avunculus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂euh₂-n-tlo, diminutive of *h₂ewh₂-n-, enlargement of *h₂ewh₂o-.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈoŋ.klə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈoŋ.kle/

• Audio

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Noun

oncle m (plural oncles)

1. uncle

See also

• tio

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French

Etymology

From Middle French oncle, from Old French oncle, from Vulgar Latin (av)unclus, from Latin avunculus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂euh₂-n-tlo, diminutive of *h₂ewh₂-n-, enlargement of *h₂ewh₂o-, from *h₂éwh₂os (“grandfather”) (whence French aïeul (“grandfather”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ̃kl/

• Audio

  (file)

• Homophone: oncles

Noun

oncle m (plural oncles)

1. uncle

   Mon père et mon oncle sont jumeaux.

   My father and my uncle are twins.

Derived terms

• Oncle Sam
• si ma tante en avait, on l'appellerait mon oncle

Related terms

• avunculaire

Descendants

• → German: Onkel
  • → Danish: onkel
  • → Latvian: onkulis
• → Dutch: nonkel
• → Norwegian Bokmål: onkel
• → Yiddish: אָנקל‎ (onkl)

Further reading

• “oncle” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• clone, cloné, leçon

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Interlingua

Noun

oncle (plural oncles)

1. uncle

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Middle French

Etymology

From Old French oncle, from Vulgar Latin *(av)unclus, from Latin avunculus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂euh₂-n-tlo, diminutive of *h₂ewh₂-n-, enlargement of *h₂ewh₂o-, from *h₂éwh₂os (“grandfather”) (whence French aïeul (“grandfather”)).

Noun

oncle m (plural oncles)

1. uncle

Descendants

• French: oncle
  • → German: Onkel
    • → Danish: onkel
    • → Latvian: onkulis
  • → Dutch: nonkel
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: onkel
  • → Yiddish: אָנקל‎ (onkl)
• Norman: aonclle (Guernsey), oncl'ye (Jersey)

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Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Vulgar Latin (av)unclus, from Latin avunculus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂euh₂-n-tlo, diminutive of *h₂ewh₂-n-, enlargement of *h₂ewh₂o-.

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

oncle m (plural oncles)

1. uncle

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Old French

Alternative forms

• uncle (Anglo-Norman)

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *aunclum, from Latin avunculus, avunculum, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂euh₂-n-tlo (“little grandfather”), diminutive of *h₂ewh₂-n-, enlargement of *h₂ewh₂o-, from *h₂éwh₂os (“grandfather”) (whence French aïeul (“grandfather”)).

Noun

oncle m (oblique plural oncles, nominative singular oncles, nominative plural oncle)

1. uncle

Descendants

• → Esperanto: onklo (via descendants)
  • → Ido: onklo
• → Middle English: uncle
  • English: uncle
    • Bislama: angkel
    • → Burmese: အန်ကယ် (ankai)
    • ⇒ Chinese: 安哥 (āngē)
    • → Hawaiian: ʻanakala
    • → Hindi: अंकल (aṅkal)
    • → Irish: uncail
    • → Scottish Gaelic: uncail
    • Tok Pisin: ankol
    • Torres Strait Creole: ankel
    • → Welsh: wncl
• Middle French: oncle
  • French: oncle
    • → German: Onkel
      • → Danish: onkel
      • → Latvian: onkulis
    • → Dutch: nonkel
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: onkel
    • → Yiddish: אָנקל‎ (onkl)
  • Norman: aonclle (Guernsey), oncl'ye (Jersey)
• → Norwegian:

  Bokmål: onkel

  Nynorsk: onkel