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From: "Stephen Hayes" <>
Subject: Nephew double meaning
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2004 11:25:40
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Eve McLaughlin wrote in a message to All:
EM> From: Eve McLaughlin <>
EM> In article <Z%CLb.429$>, W
EM> Johnson <> writes
>I thought I'd just post a fact that some may not be aware of, that probably
>roughly up to the 17th century nephew could also mean grandson(as in the
>will of Thomas Sackville 1st Earl of Dorset).
EM> yes - led astray by the Latin nepos, which means grandson but looks
EM> like nephew. And cousin can mean any sort of relative other than
EM> parents, children or siblings (inc grandsons, great nephews etc)
It can mean a grandchild, or a brother's or sister's child, or by extension,
any relative of a younger generation.
Genealogists, however, usually prefer atavism to nepotism.
Steve Hayes
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