Re: Kinship terminology
| From: | Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 14, 2000, 0:42 |
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> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 20:18:14 -0400
> From: Nik <fortytwo@...>
> And then, on the opposite of the uncle/aunt problem, the word for their
> children doesn't even have *optional* gender! It's all just "cousin".
> :-)
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; grandparents are
mormor, morfar, farmor, farfar. Finally, cousins are distinguished as
f