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Re: Way off list for wordsmiths: relations



Yuz,
Danish, like Yiddish apparently, also makes clear distinctions between maternal and paternal relations, including cousins. Danish also distinguishes between blood-relations and relations through marriage. To my Danish niece, for example, I'm the uncle-who-married-the-sister-of-the-niece's-father, and my wife is her paternal aunt.