| 词汇 | sibling |
| 词根词缀 | 词源： "brother or sister," 1903, modern revival (in anthropology) of O.E. sibling "relative, kinsman," from sibb (adj.) "kinship, relationship" (1500; surviving as sib, chiefly in Scottish), from P.Gmc. *sebjo "blood relation, relative," prop. "one's own" (cf. O.S. sibba, O.Fris., M.Du. sibbe, O.H.G. sippa, Ger. Sippe, Goth. sibja "kin, kindred"), from PIE s(w)e-bh(o)-, from base *swe- (see idiom). Related to the second element in gossip. "The word 'sib' or 'sibling' is coming into use in genetics in the English-speaking world, as an equivalent of the convenient German term 'Geschwister' " [E.&C. Paul, "Human Heredity," 1930] Short form sib is attested from 1957. |
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