Words that come from Latin “amita”

69 words across 38 languages descend from Latin amita — including aunt, auntie, aunty, grandaunt, aunthood, antie, auntly, aunting.

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English (19)

German (4)

Norman (3)

Afrikaans (2)

Irish (2)

Venetian (2)

Old French (2)

Romanian (2)

Norwegian Bokmål (2)

Norwegian Nynorsk (2)

Malay (2)

French (1)

Dutch (1)

Danish (1)

Indonesian (1)

Icelandic (1)

Swedish (1)

Latin (1)

Yiddish (1)

Dalmatian (1)

Friulian (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Albanian (1)

Hawaiian (1)

Latvian (1)

Finnish (1)

Occitan (1)

Middle English (1)

Romansch (1)

Scottish Gaelic (1)

Anglo-Norman (1)

Middle French (1)

Aukan (1)

Papiamentu (1)

Sranan Tongo (1)

Tok Pisin (1)

Torres Strait Creole (1)

Vulgar Latin (1)