Meanings
nounstep-sibling (plural step-siblings)
plural step-siblings
- alternativeAlternative form of stepsibling.
Northern Wintun (16a) utilizes a term, also applied to co-wife or co-husband, which signifies parallel cousin of like sex and step-sibling of like sex; the four usual sibling terms are also employed.
1922, Edward Winslow Gifford, Californian Kinship Terminologies, volume 18, page 191
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