Word Origin Summary

Avunculus is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *awōProto-Italicinherited from
2. *h₂euh₂-n-tloProto-Indo-Europeaninherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• ankol

  Tok Pisin · inherited from

• filleonkel

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• onkel

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• ankel

  Torres Strait Creole · derived from

• onklo

  IDO · derived from

• aug

  Romansch · inherited from

• avunculaire

  French · derived from

• nonkel

  Dutch · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root