onkel
Norwegian
noun-m1
Definitions
- an uncle
- (slang) the police.
Etymology
Derived from Latin avunculus (maternal uncle, little grandfather, mother's brother, uncle, mothers brother) derived from French oncle.
Origin
French
oncle
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- avuncular English
- avunculicide English
- uncle English
- (av)unclus Latin
- *(av)unclus Latin
- *aunclum Latin
- *unclus Latin
- avunculus Latin
- avus Latin
- Onkel German
- nonkel Dutch, Flemish
- avunculaire French
- grand-oncle French
- oncle French
- *h₂euh₂-n-tlo Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂éwh₂os Proto-Indo-European
- fille Norwegian Bokmål
- filleonkel Norwegian Bokmål
- grand Norwegian Bokmål
- grandonkel Norwegian Bokmål
- onkelunge Norwegian Bokmål
- unge Norwegian Bokmål
- onkel Norwegian Nynorsk
- oncle Old French
- onklo Esperanto
- unchi Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- ungj Albanian
- oncle Middle French
- אָנקל Yiddish