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What is the difference between nibling and sibling?

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Sibling is a derived term of nibling.

Sibling is a related term of nibling.



As nouns the difference between nibling and sibling

is that nibling is a nephew or niece, especially in the plural or as a gender-neutral term while sibling is a person who shares same parents. One's brother or sister.

nibling

English

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 [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~kruger/ks-gen.html]
    • 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 [http://yutopia.yucs.org/archives/2004/01/nibling_news.html]
  • * 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 2 who taught me how to love.
  • * 2005 December 7, "castiron" Casteel, The Bog of Lost Scholars [http://www.the-casteels.com/castiron/blog/index.php?topic=Crafts]
    • 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

    References

    * http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/~ts/language/kinship.html

    sibling

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia sibling) (en noun)
  • A person who shares same parents. One's brother or sister.
    • None of my siblings are married yet. .

    Derived terms

    * nibling * siblinghood *stepsibling *adoptive sibling *milk sibling *full sibling *siblingly *little sib *half sib *stepsib *sib-in-law *fullsib *foster sib *adoptive sib