How do you refer to aunts and uncles?

You’d think someone would have thought it a good idea to find a way of referring to aunts and uncles all at once. The word sibling comes from Old English, and just means related by blood. I suggest taking the parental ‘p’ to replace the ‘s’, so aunts and uncles are ‘piblings’.

What is a gender neutral name for aunt and uncle?

Aunt/Uncle Pibling; neutral, your parent’s sibling. Auncle; queer, combination of aunt and uncle. Cousin; neutral, as sometimes people say aunt/uncle for parents’ cousins, or much older cousins. Titi; neutral, from the Spanish for Aunt (Tia) and Uncle (Tio). (however, it is often a diminutive of aunt.)

What’s another name for aunt?

auntie
In this page you can discover 31 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for aunt, like: mother’s sister, nunky, uncle’s wife, tante (French), father’s sister, TÃa (Spanish), aunty, Tante (German), sistern, auntie and great-aunt.

What do you call an aunt who is non binary?

There are also other gender-neutral or nonbinary terms for aunt and uncle that some people use or have proposed, including: titi: modeled on terms for aunt and uncle in Spanish (tía and tío) zizi: modeled on terms for aunt and uncle in Italian (zia and zio)

How do you refer to your aunt/uncle in Chinese?

I was raised in a traditional Chinese-cultured family, and we refer to our Aunt/Uncle by their “rank”, like Greatest Aunt and Greatest Uncle, 2nd Aunt with 2nd Uncle…etc, while the rank is determined by the age on the “blood” side.

Do aunts and uncles follow the same pattern as their parents?

So aunts and uncles follow the same pattern as parents as you tack on generations: parent aunt/uncle grandparent grandaunt/granduncle great-grandparent great-grandaunt/great-granduncle great-great-grandparent great-great-grandaunt/great-great-grandu

Is it aunt X or Uncle Y in your family?

Discuss. It’s always been Aunt X or Uncle Y in our family (and extended family). The more respectful family members will actually use the proper ranking and not the name after the Aunt/Uncle designation, such as eldest Aunt or 2nd Uncle.

Why do we call our aunts by their first name?

The few instances when we call our Aunt by “Aunt-first name” are my Aunts on the maternal side. Now thinking about it, I believe that it is because my mom call them that when talking to us kids. It is not the norm though, but it is accepted.