Onkel

Borrowed from French oncle.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔŋkəl/
• Hyphenation: On‧kel

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Onkel m (strong, genitive Onkels, plural Onkel or (colloquial) Onkels)

1. uncle

   Synonym: (archaic) Oheim

The most common plural is Onkel. The form Onkels is frequent in northern colloquial German and has become partly acceptable in standard usage (for example in prose, but not in elevated or official style).

• → Danish: onkel
• → Latvian: onkulis

• “Onkel” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Onkel” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Onkel” in Duden online
• Onkel on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔŋkl̩/

Onkel m (plural Onkel)

1. uncle

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Compare German Onkel, English uncle.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔŋkəl/, [ˈɔŋkl̩]

Onkel m (plural Onkel)

1. uncle

Onkel m (plural Onkels)

1. uncle

From Old Frisian onkel, from Proto-Germanic *ankulaz.

Onkel m

1. (anatomy) ankle