avô
Portuguese
/aˈvo/, /ɐˈvo/
noun
Definitions
- grandfather, male grandparent
Etymology
Inherited from Old Portuguese avoo (grandfather) inherited from Latin *avoilu-, avus (grandfather, ancestor, old man) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwh₂os (grandfather, maternal uncle, maternal grandfather, adult male relative other than one's father, descendant, maternal grandfather uncle, relative).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*h₂éwh₂os
Gloss
grandfather, maternal uncle, maternal grandfather, adult male relative other than one's father, descendant, maternal grandfather uncle, relative
Concept
Semantic Field
Kinship
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
爺
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- avital English
- *aviolus Latin
- *avoilu- Latin
- avitus Latin
- avolo Latin
- avunculus Latin
- avus Latin
- proavus Latin
- tritavus Latin
- avo Italian
- bisavo Italian
- aïeul French
- abuelo Spanish, Castilian
- *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂ewh₂yos Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂éwh₂os Proto-Indo-European
- bisavô Portuguese
- tio Portuguese
- tio-avô Portuguese
- trisavô Portuguese
- *awahaimaz Proto-Germanic
- *awǭ Proto-Germanic
- aiol Old French
- avo Esperanto
- avi Catalan, Valencian
- avó Galician
- auș Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- Nimravidae Translingual
- avoo Old Portuguese
- *awontīr Proto-Celtic
- aush Aromanian
- güelu Asturian
- von Friulian
- avynas Lithuanian
- āwe Tocharian B
- 𒄷𒄴𒄩𒀸 Hittite
- awis Old Prussian