Where the Romanian word “unchi” comes from
Inherited from Latin.
- DEX ’98 says
Lat. avunculus.
→ Inherited Latin · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Inherited Latin (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Latin avunculus ← Vulgar Latin unclus
- In film dialogue
- 136 times per million words · number 603 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 28 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 69 44 50 44 40 - Swap in a synonym
- moș (Made in Romanian)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card