Crossword-Solution: ONKEL 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

What fire, what animation the old man had retained! We never called him anything but "Oheim." The word "Onkel" he detested as foreign, because it was derived from "avunculus" and "oncle." With the high appreciation he had of "Tante"--whom he termed, next to the mother, the most important factor of education in the family--our "Oheim" was probably specially agreeable to him.

What fire, what animation the old man had retained! We never called him anything but “Oheim.” The word “Onkel” he detested as foreign, because it was derived from “avunculus” and “oncle.” With the high appreciation he had of “Tante”--whom he termed, next to the mother, the most important factor of education in the family--our “Oheim” was probably specially agreeable to him.

Carl took the Amerika, second class, at Hamburg; the boys and I at Southampton, ushered thither from Swanage and put aboard the steamer by our faithful Onkel Keck, son of the folk with whom Carl had stayed in Heidelberg, who came all the way from London for that purpose.

Earlier in the evening there had been a full rehearsal of his first full-grown opera in three acts--'Die beiden Neffen, oder der Onkel aus Boston' (The Two Nephews, or the Uncle from Boston), which had gone most successfully, and now Zelter held up his hand as a signal that he had something important to say.

Here they were obliged to remain because of the ice, and in August the _Onkel Adam_ arrived with the reindeer and other necessary assistance, and with stores.