Re: Kinship terminology

Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
> I'll just mention here that Danish maintains distinctions in both
> these cases that English doesn't. Tante and onkel are reserved for
> aunts and uncles by marriage --- for your parents' siblings you use
> faster (~ fathersister), farbror, moster, morbror;
Hmm, interesting.  So, "tante" is the wife of *either* farbror *or*
morbror?

> grandparents are
> mormor, morfar, farmor, farfar. Finally, cousins are distinguished as
> fætter and kusine according to gender.
That's interesting.  Uncles/aunts and grandparents are distinguished by
paternal/maternal, but not cousins?

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