Noun: filleonkel
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
Indefinite
| Sg. | filleonkel |
| Pl. | filleonkler |
Definite
| Sg. | filleonkelen |
| Pl. | filleonklene |
Sample Sentences
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hun [må] tåle å tørrprate med morens fetter, hennes filleonkel, Hans Petter (she [must] endure dry talk with her mother's cousin, her male cousin, Hans Petter) [2003, Pål Gerhard Olsen, Pinse:]
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jeg ble lært opp til å kalle [mors og fars venner] onkler og tanter og skjønte først langt seinere at de bare var filletanter og filleonkler (I was taught to call [mother's and father's friends] uncles and aunts and only realized much later that they were just close friends of my parents) [2001, Harald Berntsen, Ut, page 39:]
Nouns inflected like filleonkel
seidel,
snabel,
sirkel,
husordensregel,
halvsirkel,
drivaksel,
synsvinkel,
boligmangel,
breddesirkel,
parabel,
husfusel,
eplestrudel,
Bibel,
tilførsel,
polarsirkel,
melkekjertel,
barberhøvel,
bukspyttkjertel,
etterspørsel,
bokhandel, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
fille + onkel, origin of the first part is unknown. Last part from French oncle (“uncle”), from Middle French oncle (“uncle”), from Old French oncle (“uncle”), from Vulgar Latin (av)unclus, *aunclus, from Latin avunculus (“maternal uncle”). See: French Nouns '
oncle', Latin Nouns '
avunculus'.
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