English
warn|neologism
Etymology
Formed from nephew/niece by analogy with sibling.
Pronunciation
IPA: /'nɪblɪ�/
Noun
en-noun
- A nephew or niece, especially in the plural or as a gender-neutral term.
#*1989 November, Gacs, Women Anthropologists: Selected Biographies, University of Illinois Press
#*:She was close to her family, particularly her younger �siblings and niblings.�
#*1998 May, D.J. Kruger, Relative worth across disparate types of assistance 1
#*:Kin selection was strongest for choices between sibling and friend, decreasing across sibling vs. nibling, nibling vs. friend, and nibling vs. cousin.
#*1999 June, Jay Miller, Lushootseed Culture and the Shamanic Odyssey, University of Nebraska Press
#*:Most distinctive of the system, therefore, were the two terms for parental siblings and for niblings, which occurred only among the Salish and neighboring Southern Nootkans.
#*2004 January 29, Rabbi Josh Yuter, Nibling News, Yutopia 2
#*2005 February, N. J. Enfield, "The Body as a Cognitive Artifact in Kinship Representations", Current Anthropology, Volume 46, Number 1
#*:Cousins are informally referred to by the same terms used for siblings, but officially one has an aunt/uncle-nibling relationship with one's cousins
#*2005 June 1, Sean M Theriault, The Power Of The People, Ohio State University Press
#*:But, it is my niblings<sup>2</sup> who taught me how to love.
#*2005 December 7, "castiron" Casteel, The Bog of Lost Scholars 3
#*: Next up: Probably Baby Norgi for my nibling, though I also have socks and fingerless mitts that need starting.
Hyponyms
;a nephew or niece
nephew
niece
Related terms
sibling
Translations
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trans-top|a nephew or niece
Esperanto: genevo
Italian: nipote m
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Swedish: (siblings' children) syskonbarn n, (siblings' son) nevö c, (siblings' daughter) niece#Swedish|niece c, (brother's children) brorsbarn n, (brother's son) brorson c, (brother's daughter) brorsdotter c, (sister's children) systerbarn n, (sister's son) systerson c, (sister's daughter) systerdotter c
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References
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ru:nibling
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