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Permalink Reply by Neil Coffey on June 16, 2009 at 9:09am

The French word for "uncle" is oncle. See the French phrases of the site and the "Family" section.

There's no such French word as *nulk, or really any word ending in -lk.

Perhaps you mean nul, which is usually an informal way of saying "dummy, useless person", or in very formal language and proverbs is a way of saying "nobody".

Or perhaps you meant nuque, the word for "back of the neck"...?

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Permalink Reply by Frank on June 23, 2009 at 4:20am

Indeed, the right word is "oncle". Children would say "tonton".

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