what do you call your cousin’s husband

what do you call your cousin’s husband

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Sibling-in-law

A sibling-in-law is the spouse of one’s sibling, or the sibling of one’s spouse, or the person who is married to the sibling of one’s spouse.

More commonly a sibling-in-law is referred to as a brother-in-law for a male sibling-in-law, and a sister-in-law for a female one.

Sibling-in-law also refers to the reciprocal relationship between a person’s spouse and their sibling’s spouse. In Indian English this can be referred to as a co-sibling (specificity a co-sister, for the wife of one’s sibling-in-law, or co-brother, for the husband of one’s sibling-in-law).

Rarer usage of the term is seen in “casual conversation” with the term brother-in-law describing the relationship between one’s brother-in-law’s brother: William’s brother Charles has a brother-in-law called James (James being Charles’ brother-in-law here not by virtue of marrying his sister but by being a brother of Charles’ wife) with James referring to William as being his brother-in-law.

Its meaning

What is my relationship to the spouse of my cousin?

The apparently simple expression related to actually hides an extra-ordinary amount of complexity. It might refer to any or all of the following

• a blood relationship (now better described as a genetic relationship)
• a legal relationship
• a cultural or customary relationship

In particular communities, each of these could impose familial obligations or limitations (taboos).

Genetic relationship

The fact that your cousin marries does not create any new relationship (that did not exist before). That appended caveat is necessary because it is possible that a search back through 10, 20 or more generations will show that you and the bride’s family have a common ancestor (or two). We all have many more related family than we are aware of.

Legal relationship

Obviously these vary across jurisdictions and time, but if we adopt an anglo-centric world view then we can confidently say that the Anglican (Episcopalean) Church sees no legal impediment to you marrying a sibling of your cousin’s wife (subject to you meeting the gender requirements). You do not have a prohibited degree of affinity.

Customary relationship

In many cultures, this is a rich area for linguistic study. In the anglo-saxon world we are largely restricted to the term cousin. Its strict usage refers to someone with whom we share a common ancestor although the word is now used to serve many other purposes (such as the all-to-common references to cousins-in-law).

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Your questions takes on new meaning when (if) the happy couple have children. Your cousin’s son is also your cousin (although one degree removed) and so the bride to whom you are now unrelated will become the mother of your (new) cousin. Try not to think about what happens if she were to ask you to be the child’s godparent.

Conclusion

None of this technical discussion is of much practical assistance when you are all present at family (or is that, families) gatherings and wondering what to call people. Feel free to adopt whatever usage is acceptable to both parties and avoids confusion. Just do not say it in front of a genealogist, we tend to be a bit possessive of our vocabulary.

No, you would not – the term “cousin-in-law” is often used to refer to either your cousin’s spouse, or your spouse’s cousin(s) (although the more correct term would be “cousin by marriage”).

It’s common, at least in some parts of the U.S., to refer to people being “related by marriage” as though the “in-law” affinity propagated indefinitely, but there’s no basis for it other than popular imagination.

Yes, you would be related in-law (where we get the term “in-laws”). However, you would not be related by blood.

You could consider his/her spouse to be your cousin-in-law. However, this term is rather inaccurate because it could also describe your spouse’s cousin.

What are cousins by marriage

A cousin marriage is a marriage where the spouses are cousins (i.e.

people with common grandparents or people who share other fairly recent ancestors).

The practice was common in earlier times, and continues to be common in some societies today, though in some jurisdictions such marriages are prohibited.

What is your cousin’s child to you

Children of your cousin are actually called your “first cousins once removed.” Your cousin’s child is NOT your second cousin as is commonly believed. The appropriate name for addressing your cousin’s child is niece or nephew, even though they are actually first cousins once removed.

Are 3rd cousins blood related

Are third cousins blood related? Third cousins are always considered to be relatives from a genealogical perspective, and there is about a 90% chance that third cousins will share DNA. With that said, third cousins who do share DNA only share an average of . 78% of their DNA with each other, according to 23andMe.

WORD FOR THE SPOUSE OF A COUSIN

As someone with a sizable extended family (something of rarity in the US these days), I often find myself telling people about something that “my cousin’s wife/husband” said or did. Well, okay, it’s not “often”, but it is “frequent enough that it’s become an annoyance to not have a more concise term”. I could just use “cousin-in-law”, but hyphen-induced concision doesn’t count. So I set about searching for a word or phrase to describe the relationship, and have come to the surprising conclusion that English doesn’t have one.

Many of you, however, speak other languages, or are from different cultures, perhaps more family-oriented ones that might have been in the same situation and have a term. So I follow the traditional route of the English speaker and borrow a word from another tongue. Can any of you help?

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In Spanish we use the same word for brother/sister-in-law whether that person married your sibling or your cousin: cu?ado for male, cu?ada for female. I don’t think it gets any more specific. From my experience Latin/Mediterranean cultures use words like uncle and cousin as catch-all terms for extended family.

EDIT: Can’t write down the enie (N with squiggly on top).

We don’t have words in english

There are a lot of things for which we don’t have words in english, and I recently had a conversation with a colleague about some foreign words that don’t have direct english equivalents.

On the subject of the OP, TBH I’d just say “cousin” and be done. It’s a title regarding to a relationship as much as it does to any actual blood ties. You can get into -once-removed and second/third cousins, but often it’s easier to just say cousin.

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On the subject of other words we don’t have, there was a great example in a show I watched a short time back. Guy Pierce has done a series of movies and a mini-series called Jack Irish, based on the eponymous character of a popular aussie book series. He’s a former lawyer whose life derailed, and he’s now part-detective, part-enforcer with friends on both sides of the law. In one storyline, he’s romantically involved with a woman whose father is like a Senator, and whose sister was brainwashed and killed by a religious cult.

I regret that this line of thought does necessitate a spoiler, so I would skip this paragraph if you will ever watch the films, else read on. Jack becomes involved with this woman while investigating her sister’s death, and in the course of events she’s also killed. In his grief, the father sought revenge and takes some lives himself. When Jack finally unravels the threads and finds him, the father says something like “When you lose a wife, you become a widower. When you lose your parents, you’re an orphan. But what’s the word when you aren’t a father anymore?”

It’s sensational storytelling, I can’t recommend those movies/episodes enough.