Re: You have a word for it?

>>!!! I say sibling all the time.  "Three siblings" is a lot faster to say
than "Two brothers and one sister"!

Clint<<

As do I, and most people seem to know what I mean (even my peers, which
are teenagers), so it must be in some sort of common use.

>>But in the singular?  Would you ever say "She is my sibling"?  For what
it's worth, I usually don't even use sibling in the plural.  I'd usually
say something like, for example, "Do you have any brothers or sisters?"
rather than "Do you have any siblings".  I might use "siblings" in a
specific case like that, "He has three siblings"<<

I use it either way, since I only have one sibling. But yeah, most people
probably don't use sibling in the singular as often as plural.
On a "side" note: in my conlang...
sibling: zalo
brother: zaloyo
sister: zaloyi

;)

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