Släkthistoria för Uncle
Uncle Vad efternamn betyder
from Middle English uncle a borrowing of Anglo-Norman French uncle Old French oncle ‘uncle’. Compare Eames and Neame. occasionally perhaps from the Middle English personal name Unkel(l) or Unketill. In some instances this may represent either an Anglo-Scandinavian *Unnketill (a derivative of unna ‘to love’ + ketill ‘kettle cauldron’) or an Anglo-Scandinavian *Húnketill (perhaps húnn ‘bear cub’ + ketill). Alternatively Unkel(l) is an altered pronunciation of the well-evidenced name Ulkell a reduced form of Old Scandinavian Úlfketel (úlfr ‘wolf’ + ketill) with dissimilation of l—l to n—l. Old Scandinavian -ketill was often reduced to -kel(l) in Northern Danelaw (as in the Yorkshire examples cited below) but -ketill was commonly retained in medieval E Anglia where Unkyll as a possible variant of Ul(f)ketyll or Unketyll is not found until the late 15th and 16th centuries.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
