tante
Danish
/tantə/
noun
Definitions
- aunt
Etymology
Borrowed from German Tante (aunt) borrowed from French tante (aunt) derived from Old French ante (aunt) derived from Latin amita (paternal aunt, father's sister).
Origin
Latin
amita
Gloss
paternal aunt, father's sister
Concept
Semantic Field
Kinship
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *amitāna Latin
- *mita Latin
- abamita Latin
- amita Latin
- amitinus Latin
- Erbtante German
- Tante German
- Tante-Emma-Laden German
- tantig German
- tante Dutch, Flemish
- tante French
- *amma- Proto-Indo-European
- tante Norwegian Bokmål
- tant Swedish
- tante Norwegian Nynorsk
- antain Old French
- ante Old French
- tanta Icelandic
- tanti Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- tante Latvian
- tante Norman
- tànte Norman
- emtë Albanian
- tante Middle French
- tånte Cimbrian
- tanta Occitan
- onda Romansh
- agne Friulian
- gnagna Venetian
- àmeda Venetian
- àmia Venetian
- aunte xno
- amia Dalmatian
- Tante AG.