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nibling
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. , vs. friend, and 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- relationship with one's cousins
- 2005 June 1, Sean M Theriault, The Power Of The People, Ohio State University Press
- :But, it is my niblings² 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 , though I also have socks and fingerless mitts that need starting.

Translations:

Italian: nipote
(trans-mid)

Etymology: Formed from nephew/niece by analogy with sibling.

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