See avunculus on Wiktionary
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"text": "North Italian:"
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"text": "Gallo-Romance:"
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"2": "uncle",
"3": "onclo",
"4": "hunclo"
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"text": "Old Franco-Provençal: uncle, onclo, hunclo"
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"2": "onclle",
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"text": "Franco-Provençal: onclle, oncllo"
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"depth": 2,
"templates": [],
"text": "Oïl:"
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"text": "Bourbonnais-Berrichon: ouncle, onclïe, onquille"
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"args": {
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"text": "Occitano-Romance:"
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"text": "Catalan: oncle, onclo"
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"text": "Old Occitan: avoncle, auncle, aoncle, oncle"
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"text": "Ancient borrowings:"
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"ipa": "/aˈvun.ku.lus/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
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"Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
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"text": "Balkan Romance:"
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{
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"1": "ro",
"2": "unchi",
"alts": "1"
},
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"name": "desc"
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"depth": 1,
"templates": [],
"text": "North Italian:"
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"1": "rm",
"2": "aug",
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"2": "uncle",
"3": "onclo",
"4": "hunclo"
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"1": "frp",
"2": "onclle",
"3": "oncllo"
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"name": "desc"
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"text": "Franco-Provençal: onclle, oncllo"
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"depth": 2,
"templates": [],
"text": "Oïl:"
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"1": "roa-bbn",
"2": "ouncle",
"3": "onclïe",
"4": "onquille"
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"expansion": "Bourbonnais-Berrichon: ouncle, onclïe, onquille",
"name": "desc"
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"text": "Bourbonnais-Berrichon: ouncle, onclïe, onquille"
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"2": "oncle"
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"expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
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"3": "avonclo",
"4": "oncle"
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"alts": "1"
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"4": "aoncle",
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"2": "oncle"
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"text": "Ancient borrowings:"
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"3": "ungj",
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"plural"
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"singular"
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"source": "declension",
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"accusative",
"plural"
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"source": "declension",
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"ablative",
"singular"
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
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"source": "declension",
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"vocative"
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"source": "declension",
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"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"la:Male family members"
],
"glosses": [
"maternal uncle, mother's brother"
],
"links": [
[
"maternal uncle",
"maternal uncle"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-2",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"mother's sister's husband"
],
"links": [
[
"sister",
"sister"
],
[
"husband",
"husband"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-2",
"masculine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"great-uncle"
],
"links": [
[
"great-uncle",
"great-uncle"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-2",
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/aˈu̯un.ku.lus/",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[äˈu̯ʊŋkʊɫ̪ʊs̠]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/aˈvun.ku.lus/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[äˈvuŋkulus]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Brill Publishers"
],
"word": "avunculus"
}
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