From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Etymology
From [en], from [en], from [en], from [en]. Displaced native [enm] (from
[ang]; compare [ang]). The digraph [au] representing [/æ ~ ɑː/] instead of
the expected [/ɔː/] is irregular, and has not been conclusively explained
(compare [en], which contains [/ɑː/] in some UK dialects).
*** Pronunciation
- [änt] , [en] [1]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en] [en] [en] [en]
- [ănt] , [en] <ref name="dialect" />
- [en]
- [en] [en] [en] [en]
- [en]
- [ônt] , [en] <ref name="dialect" />
- [ŭnt] , [en]
- [ānt] , [en] <ref name="dialect" />
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent.
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1923 | author=w:P.G. Wodehouse | title=The Inimitable Jeeves
|passage=As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the
occasions when AUNT is calling to AUNT like mastodons bellowing across
primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar
behaviour is being shot round the family circle... the clan has a tendency to
ignore me.}}
1. The female cousin or cousin-in-law of one’s parent.
2. [en] A woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin .
3. [en] Any elderly woman.
4. [en] A procuress or bawd .
5. * [volume=II]
**** Usage notes
_Aunt_ is capitalized when it is used as a title with a name: _Have you
written to Aunt Jane?_
**** Synonyms
- [en] , [en] [diminutive]
- [en] [India]
- [en] [nonstandard]
**** Antonyms
- [with regard to gender] [en]
- [with regard to ancestry] [en] , [en]
**** Hypernyms
- [sibling of someone's parent] [en] , [en] [en]
**** Hyponyms
{{col4|en |paternal aunt<q:sister of someone's father> |maternal aunt<q:sister
of someone's mother> |aunt-in-law |co-aunt |cousin-aunt |double aunt
|grandaunt,great-grandaunt,great-aunt |half aunt,maternal half aunt,paternal
half aunt |second aunt |stepaunt }}
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|step-aunt|agony aunt,agony auntie,agony aunty |auntcest
|auntdom|Bob's your uncle and Fanny's your aunt|Aunt Edna |Aunt Emma |Aunt Flo
|aunt fucker |aunthood |aunticide |Auntie<!--nickname of the BBC-->
|auntie,aunty |Auntie Beeb |aunting |aunt-in-law |auntish |Aunt Jane |Aunt
Jemima |auntless |auntlike |auntly |Aunt Minnie |aunt nell |auntness |Aunt
Sally |auntship |Aunt Thomasina |auntyish |auntyji |co-aunt |cousin-aunt
|double aunt |grandaunt |great-aunt |great-grandaunt |half aunt |if my aunt
had balls, she'd be my uncle,if my uncle had tits, he'd be my aunt |kopi
auntie,kopi aunty |maiden-auntish,maiden-auntishness |maternal half aunt
|maternal aunt |mine aunt<!--# [vulgar] (_cant_) Mine aunt; a bawd or
procuress: a title of eminence for the senior dells, who serve for
instructresses, midwives, etc. for the dells.--> |my aunt Fanny |my giddy
aunt |my sainted aunt |my aunt |naunt |paternal aunt |paternal half aunt
|please excuse my dear Aunt Sally |second aunt |stepaunt |summon auntie |uncle
or aunt |wine aunt |wouldn't call the Queen my aunt }}
**** Related terms
- [en]
**** Descendants
- [haw]
- [ga]
- [pdc]
- [yo]
**** Translations
Several languages distinguish between blood aunts (one's parent's sister) and
_in-law_ aunts (one's parent's sister-in-law), some distinguish between
paternal and maternal aunts, and some distinguish between one's parent's older
siblings and younger siblings. [a parent's sister or sister-in-law]
- Abinomn: [bsa]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Albanian: [sq] , [sq] , [sq]
- Aleut: [ale] , [ale]
- Alutor: [alr]
- Amharic: [am]
- Arabic: [father's sister] [ar] , [mother's sister] [ar] , [wife of father's brother] [ar] ; [wife of mother's brother] [ar]
- Armenian: [hy] [paternal] , [hy] [maternal] , [hy] [in law]
- Assamese: [as] , [as] , [as] , [as] , [as]
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: [father's sister] [aii] , [mother's sister] [aii] , [wife of father's brother] [aii] ; [wife of mother's brother] [aii]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Aukan: [djk] , [djk]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az]
- Bakhtiari: [paternal] [bqi]
- Basque: [eu] , [eu] , [eu] [northern,familiar]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bengali: [mother's sister] [bn] / [bn] , [father's sister] [bn] / [bn] , [wife of father's brother] [bn] , [wife of mother's brother] [bn] , [bn] , [bn] , [bn] , [bn] , [bn]
- Bhojpuri: [bho]
- Breton: [br]
- Brunei Malay: [kxd]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my] [elder sister of one's father or mother] , [my] [mother's elder sister] , [my] [younger sister of one's father or mother] , [my] [younger sister of one's mother] , [my] [mother's younger sister] , [my] , [my]
- Carpathian Rusyn: [rue]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Central Dusun: [dtp]
- Chichewa: [ny] [father's sister] , [ny] [mother's sister] , [ny] [mother's older sister] , [ny] [mother's younger sister]
- Chinese:
- Chinook Jargon: [chn]
- Cornish: [kw]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da] [father's sister] , [da] [mother's sister]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Ewe: [paternal] [ee] , [ee] , [mother's elder sister] [ee] , [ee] , [mother's younger sister] [ee] , [ee]
- Faroese: [fo] [paternal] , [fo] [maternal]
- Finnish: [fi] [paternal or maternal, sometimes in-law]
- French: [fr] , [fr] [informal]
- Friulian: [fur]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Greenlandic: [kl] [maternal] , [kl] [paternal]
- Gunwinggu: [gup] [paternal] , [gup] [mother's younger sister] , [gup] [mother's older sister]
- Hamer-Banna: [amf] [mother's older sister] , [amf] [mother's younger sister] , [amf] [father's sister]
- Hawaiian: [haw] , [haw]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi] [father's sister] , [hi] [mother's sister] , [hi] [wife of father's younger brother] , [hi] [mother's brother's wife] , [hi] [wife of father's elder brother ]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Irish: [ga]
- Istriot: [ist]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [younger than one's parent] [ja] , [older than one's parent] [ja]
- Jeju:
- Kambaata: [ktb]
- Kapampangan: [pam]
- Kashmiri: [ks] [father's sister] , [ks] [father's brother's wife] , [ks] [mother's sister] , [ks] [mother's brother's wife]
- Kazakh: [kk] , [kk]
- Khoekhoe: [naq]
- Kis: [kis]
- Korean:
- Krisa: [ksi] [paternal] , [ksi] [mother's elder sister] , [ksi] [mother's younger sister]
- Kurdish:
- Latgalian: [ltg]
- Latin: [la] [paternal] , [la] [maternal] , [la]
- Latvian: [lv] , [paternal] [lv] , [maternal] [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Luhya: [luy]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay:
- Malayalam: [ml] , [colloquial] [ml] , [ml] , [father's elder sister] [ml] , [father's younger sister] [ml]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] [neologism] , [mi] [genderless]
- Marathi: [mother's sister] [mr] , [mother's sister-in-law] [mr] , [father's sister] [mr] , [father's sister-in-law] [mr]
- Mari:
- Mazanderani: [mzn]
- Meriam: [ulk]
- Middle English: [enm]
- Miyako: [younger than one's parent] [mvi] , [older or younger than one's parent] [mvi]
- Mòcheno: [mhn]
- Ngarrindjeri: [nay]
- Norman: [nrf] [Guernsey] , [nrf] [Jersey]
- Northern Ohlone: [cst]
- Northern Sami: [mother's elder sister] [se] , [mother's younger sister] [se] , [father's sister] [se] , [parent's or their sibling's cousin's wife] [se]
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: [oc]
- Old English: [ang] [mother's sister] , [ang] [father's sister]
- Old French: [fro] , [fro]
- Oromo: [om]
- Pannonian Rusyn: [rsk] , [rsk]
- Pashto: [ps]
- Pennsylvania German: [pdc] , [pdc]
- Persian:
- Plautdietsch: [pdt] , [pdt]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl] [wife of mother's brother] , [pl] [wife of father's brother]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romani: [rom]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] [colloquial] , [ru]
- Sanskrit: [father's sister] [sa]
- Sardinian: [sc] , [sc]
- Saterland Frisian: [stq]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] [paternal] , [gd] [maternal] , [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh] [Croatia]
- Seri: [sei]
- Sicilian: [scn]
- Sidamo: [sid]
- Sinhalese: [si]
- Skolt Sami: [sms] [paternal]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Somali: [so]
- Sorbian:
- Southern Altai: [alt]
- Spanish: [es]
- Sudovian: [xsv]
- Sundanese: [su]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] [paternal] , [sv] [maternal] , [sv] [in-law]
- Tagalog: [tl] , [tl] , [tl]
- Tamil: [ta] [paternal] , [ta] [younger] , [ta] [elder] , [ta]
- Telugu: [paternal] [te] , [maternal] [te] , [te] , [maternal, in-law] [te]
- Thai: [th] [parent's elder sister] , [th] [father's younger sister] , [th] [mother's younger sister]
- Tibetan: [bo] [maternal] , [bo] [paternal]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr] , [tr] [paternal] , [tr] [maternal] , [tr] [in-law]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur] [maternal] , [ur] , [ur] [paternal]
- Venetan: [vec] , [vec] , [vec] , [vec]
- Vietnamese: [vi] [paternal] , [vi] [maternal]
- Volapük: [vo] , [vo]
- Walloon: [wa]
- Welsh: [cy]
- West Frisian: [fy]
- Yámana: [yag]
- Yiddish: [yi]
- Yoruba: [yo] [mother's older sister] , [yo] [father's older sister] , [yo] [mother's younger sister] , [yo] [father's younger sister]
- Zazaki: [zza] , [zza]
[trans-bottom]
[great-aunt or grandaunt]
[grandmother]
[affectionate term for an older woman, by means of fictive kin]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy]
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: [aii] , [aii]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Burmese: [my] , [my] [for younger women]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Jeju: [jje] , [jje]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Latvian: [lv]
- Malay: [ms]
- Marathi: [mr] , [mr]
- Norwegian:
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [colloquial] [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Yoruba: [yo]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Breton: [1,2,3,4] [br] , [children's language] [br]
- Guaraní: [gn] , [2] [gn]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id] , [id]
- Interlingua: [ia]
- Lithuanian: [1] [lt]
- Polish: [pl]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Telugu: [te] , [te] , [te]
- Tibetan: [bo] , [bo]
- Tupinambá: [1] [tpn] , [2] [tpn]
- Upper Sorbian: [hsb]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
- Woiwurrung: [wyi] , [wyi]
[trans-bottom]
*** See also
- [en]
*** References
References:
[1]. The Dialect Survey (see http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_1.html) of US pronunciations, archived (see https://web.archive.org/web/20071028074153/http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_1.html) on October 20, 2007
*** Further reading
- [pedia]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** Middle English
*** Noun
[enm]
1. [enm]