English

guncle

Blend of gay + uncle.

A blend of gay + uncle

Old French gai ‘joyful, merry’

Middle English gay ‘joyous’

English gay

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwh₂os ‘grandfather’

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Latin avunculus ‘maternal uncle’

Vulgar Latin *aunclum

Anglo-Norman uncle

Middle English uncle

English uncle

Today it means

noun A gay uncle.

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