Family Tree (Titus/Dingus)

[Jussi Mantere]

On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, [iso-8859-1] Sigvald Grøsfjeld jr. wrote:

> But do you also have a word for
> onkel/uncle (father's brother + mother's brother +
> husbands of any sisters of father and mother)?

As far as I know, no. So in Finland there would have been no way to use a
neutral word for $crooge and Don, while in Sweden they at least could have
used "onkel" :-)

(In practice, however, everyone understands if you just say "setä",
 whatever the real word should be...)

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