For "brothers and sisters", it's "siblings". For "sons and daughters", it's "children". For "mother and father", it's "parents" For "grandfather and grandmother", it's "grandparents". What is the collective term for "aunts and uncles"? What is it for "nieces and nephews"?
2007-01-01 14:32:54 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
These are kinship terms that are just not present in English. There is no single word to use, either for aunt/uncle or niece/nephew.
2007-01-01 14:43:21 · answer #1 · answered by dollhaus 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
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2016-05-23 04:49:27 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Parents' siblings is the correct term, but it is so awkward no one uses it. If it was important, English would have borrowed a term from a language that had it, as we did "patio", "machete", "sampan", "orang hutan" and "kangaroo".
I used to call my nieces and nephews "scurries", because that described what they did a lot of at family gatherings when they were youngers, but it never caught on. Again, there isn't a collective term.
2007-01-01 15:03:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Nieces and Nephews collectively are niblings. There is no term for aunts and uncles.
2015-08-18 13:30:08 · answer #4 · answered by Drew 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In Arkansas it's Uncle Dad, or Aunty Mom
2007-01-02 00:51:43 · answer #5 · answered by wombat2u2004 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ther is no word for what you are looking for (to describe just aunts and uncles - using your example)
The closest word to this is "relatives"
2007-01-01 14:53:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
An excellent observation. The closest I've ever come is "aunts'nuncles&thkids"!
2007-01-01 16:07:03 · answer #7 · answered by Casperia 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
An aunt or uncle is someone's sibling either paternal or maternal.
2007-01-01 14:36:32 · answer #8 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
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2007-01-01 17:09:56 · answer #9 · answered by melbournewooferblue 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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2007-01-01 22:32:37 · answer #10 · answered by Sterz 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋