just as moms & dads are called parents, does anyone know an inclusive single-word term for aunts & uncles? what about for nephews & nieces? thanks in advance for your help.
please use the rest of this thread to post vocabulary questions & answers.
please use the rest of this thread to post vocabulary questions & answers.
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Unsu...
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Sat, February 26, 2005 - 3:42 PMThe older use of the word "cousin" was for a range of blood relations that would have encompassed nephews and nieces. Now however, no such term exists. Nephew can be used to include both genders as most english masculine words can, but this isn't common usage.
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Sat, February 26, 2005 - 10:54 PMrelatives or those people i moved two thousand miles to be shut of. -
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Sun, February 27, 2005 - 6:30 PMIt's two words but I would say "parent's siblings." Which doesn't work well to describe those aunts and uncles who are related to your parents by marriage.
I think newspapers write "extended family" and leave it be.
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Unsu...
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Wed, March 2, 2005 - 11:27 AMTo me it would be relatives OF those people I moved 3,000 miles from (my parents).
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Mon, February 28, 2005 - 11:05 AMIn my circles "niephlings" is understood to mean nieces and nephews. In Yiddish, mishbucha is undefined extended family of either sex. I'm making up that spelling, but it's a transliteration anyway. -
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Mon, February 28, 2005 - 12:31 PMniephlings
I love it! -
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Mon, February 28, 2005 - 4:36 PMNiephlings, Viveca? sounds alright to me. who came up with that one? is it Yiddish (or perhaps Yinglish)? think i'll promote it! thanks. :) -
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Mon, February 28, 2005 - 8:11 PMCome to think of it I have no idea where it came from. I don't think it's from Yiddish. I like it though, especially because people usually know what you mean even when they've never heard it before. -
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Tue, March 1, 2005 - 2:49 PMdo you know of any dictionaries (slang dictionaries or whatever) that list this word? i'm feally curious now! -
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Tue, March 1, 2005 - 10:29 PMAt this point your guess is as good as mine.
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Unsu...
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Wed, March 2, 2005 - 10:13 AMTribe. heh
Here is what Thesaurus dot calm had to offer :
clan, dynasty, family tree, folk, folks, household, kin, kindred, line, lineage, ménage, race, relatives, stock, tradition.
In Russian it is rat'noy ( kindred ). -
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Wed, March 2, 2005 - 10:28 AMhehe. some of my relatives are definitely rat'noys. -
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Sun, May 1, 2005 - 1:17 PMi need vocab help again: to anyone who can answer...what would be a LITERAL English translation of the Italian word "ciao"? i ask because i know that it's used as BOTH a greeting & a parting. -
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Sun, May 1, 2005 - 1:34 PM -
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Sun, May 1, 2005 - 1:35 PMaccording to the site, literally translated it means "i am your slave"
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Sun, May 1, 2005 - 4:12 PMHave you heard the saying "kith & kin"?
In case kin doesn't do it (as someone already suggested) you can use kith. It carries less of a sense of immediate family than kin.
Kith = familiar friends, neighbors, or relatives -
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Sun, May 8, 2005 - 1:11 PMcan anyone tell me a word meaning "was born"? -
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Sun, May 8, 2005 - 7:07 PM
I think I see what you mean, something analogous to "died" so that you could say
Jo-Ann Do <XXX> January 12th.
I can only think of the idiomatic "arrived"
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Sun, May 8, 2005 - 7:45 PMNada.
brought into life, came or sprang forth, emerged, entered the world, issued forth, proceeded from, sprouted
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leapt fully-formed from the head of . . . if you happen to be Athena
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Mon, March 31, 2008 - 9:09 AMThe Southern say "birthed".
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Mon, May 9, 2005 - 3:03 PM“Every few months a query comes in about in-laws: ''What do I call my father-in-law's brother?'' The English lexicon does have that unfilled semantic space. Yiddish comes to the rescue by naming all one's relatives by marriage as machetunim, mokh-eh-TOO-nim, plural of the Hebrew mechutan, mokh-HOO-ten, which could signify your spouse's mother's second cousin. The most inclusive word is mishpocheh (mish-PAW-kheh), literally ''family,'' which lumps together just about everybody invited to the wedding. It is similar to the Russian rodnye (rohd-NEE-eh). “
~ William Safires
www.nytimes.com/2005/04/17...NGUAGE.html
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Tue, May 10, 2005 - 12:22 AMI've seen "arrived" in birth announcements, but that only makes sense in context. -
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Thu, March 27, 2008 - 8:56 AMto anyone who can answer for certain (and please identify your source) from what language comes the word "kufi", meaning a type of traditional brimless cap worn primarily by African-descended men regardless of religious affiliation, or by Muslim men regardless of race or ethnicity? -
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Thu, March 27, 2008 - 11:52 AMcovering the head is an ancient tradition in many religions...and certainly in the Semitic ones. So, the more recent use is probably related to that, through Islam.
As far as the Kufi itself is concerned, that probably dates back farther than Islam itself. Maybe if you called an African Studies professor they could give you some leads...
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Fri, March 28, 2008 - 2:37 AMFound this on Merriam-Webster's online dictionary:
Main Entry: ku·fi
Pronunciation: \ˈkü-fē\
Function: noun
Etymology: ultimately from Arabic kūfīya kaffiyeh
Date: 1981
: a close-fitting brimless cylindrical or round hat
"ultimately from Arabic"
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Fri, March 28, 2008 - 8:04 AMthanks, Denisey! :) -
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Fri, March 28, 2008 - 6:47 PMMy pleasure, Nedloh40 : )
(may I call you Ned?)
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