different between nibling vs sibling

English

Etymology

Blend of nephew or niece +? sibling, coined by the American linguist Samuel Elmo Martin (1924–2009) in 1951.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?n?bl??/, enPR: n?b?l?ng
• Homophone: nibbling (one pronunciation)
• Hyphenation: nib?ling

Noun

nibling (plural niblings)

1. (chiefly anthropology, rare, often in the plural) Used especially as a gender-neutral term: the child of one's sibling or sibling-in-law; one's nephew or niece. [from 1951]

   Synonym: nephling

   Hyponyms: nephew, niece

Translations

References

Further reading

• niece and nephew on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

1903, modern revival of Old English sibling (“relative, a relation, kinsman”), equivalent to sib +? -ling. Compare Middle English sib, sibbe (“relative; kinsman”), German Sippe. The term apparently meant merely kin or relative until the 20th century when it was applied in a way that aided the study of genetics, which led to its specialized use. For example, the OED has a 1903 citation in which "sibling" must be defined for those who don't know the intended meaning.

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?b?-l?ng, IPA^(key): /?s?bl??/
• Rhymes: -?bl??, -??
• Hyphenation: sib?ling

Noun

sibling (plural siblings)

1. A person who shares a parent; one's brother or sister who one shares a parent with.

2. (computing theory) A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.
3. (taxonomy) The most closely related species, or one of several most closely species when none can be determined to be more closely related.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• sibling on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Anagrams

• Giblins

Dutch

Etymology

From English sibling. Equivalent to native Dutch sibbe (“kinship; family”) +? -ling (“-ling”).

Noun

sibling m (plural siblingen)

1. (chiefly academic) sibling

Related terms

• sibbe
• sibbegenoot

Old English

Etymology

From sibb +? -ling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sib.lin?/, [?sib.li??]

Noun

sibling m

1. relative, kinsman

Declension

Descendants

• ? English: sibling

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “sibling”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.