Words that come from Latin “avunculus”

58 words across 21 languages descend from Latin avunculus — including uncle, avuncular, stepuncle, avunculocal, uncleship, avuncularly, avuncularity, unclehood.

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English (19)

Esperanto (6)

Ido (4)

German (4)

Catalan (3)

French (2)

Albanian (2)

Norman (2)

Norwegian Bokmål (2)

Norwegian Nynorsk (2)

Vulgar Latin (2)

Latin (1)

Hawaiian (1)

Yiddish (1)

Middle French (1)

Occitan (1)

Old French (1)

Torres Strait Creole (1)

Romansch (1)

Hindi (1)

Middle English (1)