aunte
Middle English
Alternative forms
- ante, aunt, awnte, naunte
Etymology
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman aunte and continental Old French ante, from Latin amita.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈau̯nt(ə)/, /ˈant(ə)/
Noun
aunte (plural auntes)
- aunt (sister of one's parents)
- Synonym: (early) moddrie
- 1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The [Mannes] Tale [of Lawe]”, in The Tales of Caunt́burẏ (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published c. 1400–1410], OCLC 14061358, folio 125, verso:
- The senatours wyf / hir Aunte was / But foꝛ al that / she knew hir neuer the mooꝛe
- The senator's wife was her aunt, / but despite that, she didn't know her at all.
Descendants
- English: aunt
- → Hawaiian: ʻanakē
- → Irish: aint
- → Pennsylvania German: Aent
- → Yoruba: àǹtí
- Scots: aunt
References
- “aunte, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Old French
Noun
aunte f (oblique plural auntes, nominative singular aunte, nominative plural auntes)
- Late Anglo-Norman spelling of ante