tante

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (feminine) aunt
2. (derogatory, feminine) homosexual (man); faggot, fag (US); poof (UK)

Sinonieme

tatie

tata

tapette

pédale

pédé

tantouse

soeur du père

mère

👩‍🍼

tantine

oncle

tantouze

fée

🧚

folle

pet

prout

tante maternelle

tante paternelle

matante

clope

Vertalings

aunt

zia

tía

Tante

tante

tia

tia

θεία

teyze

hala

tanta

amita

matertera

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/tɑ̃t/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle French: tante

Geërf van Old French: ante

Geërf van Latyn: amita

In summary

Inherited from Middle French tante, alteration of ante, from Old French ante, from Latin amita ("father's sister"). The initial t- is probably due to childish reduplication.
A derivation from t’ante, that is ta ante (“your aunt”), is grammatically possible because the use of ton with vowel-initial feminines is secondary and was only optional in Middle French. However, if a rebracketing 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).