Etymology

tante

T1A1N1T1E1

Today it means: A Jewish aunt. Full definition →

Yiddish טאַנטע ← German Tante ← French tante
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. French · derived fromtante
  2. German · derived fromTante
  3. Yiddish · borrowed fromטאַנטע
  4. English todaytante

Borrowed from Yiddish טאַנטע (tante), from German Tante, from French tante.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.