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nibling

noun
/ˈnɪblɪŋ/US

Etymology

Blend of nephew or niece + sibling, coined by the American linguist Samuel Elmo Martin (1924–2009) in 1951.

  1. learned borrowing from sibling — “relative, a relation, kinsman”
  2. compounded as nibling — “niece + sibling”

Definitions

  1. Used especially as a gender-neutral term

    Used especially as a gender-neutral term: the child of one's sibling or sibling-in-law; one's nephew or niece.

    • Aunts and uncles are concerned with the education of their niblings and may play a minor role in the ultimate arrangement of a marriage for the nibling.
    • Very recently I heard an informant respond with cousin to my question about the “child of nibling” position.
    • In the following line we find Q¹P²; that is, child of a parent of a parent; this is the relation that nuncles (aunts or uncles) bear to niblings (nieces or nephews).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nibling. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA