Borrowed fromYiddishטאַנטע(tante), fromGermanTante, fromFrenchtante.
tante (pluraltantes)
FromDutchtante, fromFrenchtante.
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tante (pluraltantes,diminutivetannieortantetjie)
Borrowed viaGermanTante fromFrenchtante, fromOld Frenchante, fromLatinamita(“paternal aunt”).
tante c (singular definitetanten,plural indefinitetanter)
| common gender | singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | tante | tanten | tanter | tanterne |
| genitive | tantes | tantens | tanters | tanternes |
Borrowed fromFrenchtante, fromMiddle Frenchtante, fromOld Frenchante, fromLatinamita, fromProto-Indo-European*amma-.
tante f (pluraltantes,diminutivetantetje n)
Inherited fromMiddle Frenchtante, alteration ofante, fromOld Frenchante, fromLatinamita ("father's sister"). The initialt- is probably due to childishreduplication.
A derivation fromt’ante, that ista ante(“your aunt”), is grammatically possible because the use ofton with vowel-initial feminines is secondary and was only optional in Middle French. However, if arebracketing of this sort had occurred, one would not expect it to happen with the second-person pronoun, but much rather the first person (thus*mante).
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FromFrenchtenter(“attempt, tempt”).
tante
tante
FromMalaytante, fromDutchtante, fromMiddle Frenchtante, fromOld Frenchante, fromLatinamita, fromProto-Indo-European*amma-.
tantê (pluraltante-tante)
tante
Borrowed fromGermanTante(“aunt”), itself aborrowing fromFrenchtante(“aunt”). This borrowing was first mentioned in 18th-century Latvian texts.[1]
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tante f (5th declension,masculine form:tēvocis),onkulis
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | tante | tantes |
| genitive | tantes | tanšu |
| dative | tantei | tantēm |
| accusative | tanti | tantes |
| instrumental | tanti | tantēm |
| locative | tantē | tantēs |
| vocative | tante | tantes |
tante (Jawi spellingتنتى,pluraltante-tante)
FromOld Frenchante, fromLatinamita.
Borrowed fromGermanTante, itself fromFrenchtante.
FromGermanTante(“aunt”), fromFrenchtante(“aunt”), fromMiddle Frenchtante, fromOld Frenchante, antain(“aunt”), fromLatinamita(“paternal aunt; father's sister”) (combined withVulgar Latin*amitāna), fromProto-Indo-European*amma-,*ama-(“mother”).
tante f orm (definite singulartantaortanten,indefinite pluraltanter,definite pluraltantene)
FromLatinamita, viaOld Frenchante,Frenchtante, andGermanTante.
tante f (definite singulartanta,indefinite pluraltanter,definite pluraltantene)
