Relationship term for the connection between you and your daughter's niece?
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ZhouLe
This doesn't have a term in English. There is no differentiating between an aunt/uncle that is a sibling to a parent or is married to that sibling, but there is no unique term for the parents of that married-in person. Aunt's mother counter daughter's niece or uncle's mother-in-law counter son-in-law's niece.
OneAndOnlyTinkerCat [OP]
Interesting. What languages does it have a term in, if any? And if none, can we start using grandchild-in-law? It seems good to me.
ZhouLe
Grandchild-in-law isn't firmly defined, but I think most people would think it is a spouse of a grandchild. Some languages don't even care about kinship and would call anyone "grandparent" or "grandchild" of the proper generation, but English isn't one of those. You can call whoever whatever feels best, of course, but if you are looking for something expanative to tell others, "daughter's niece" and "aunt's mother" gets the point across.
Huge_Inside_My_Head
Sometimes it’s ok just to call someone Grandma 👵🥰
Junuxx
Daughter's niece / aunt's mother seems perfectly clear terminology to me.
But otherwise, I'm wondering if grandniece-in-law would be more accurate then your proposed grandchild-in-law.
ZhouLe
grandniece-in-law
Feel like this has all the parts necessary to give a good first impression, but the longer I think about it the more it doesn't make sense, lol.
Good-Conclusion-9508
Grandniece in law is the correct answer for me. It doesn’t make sense to be grandchild in law.
AP_Cicada
M is B's son-in-law's niece, or B is M's uncle's mother-in-law. There's no direct term.
Zestyclose-Food-7917
Relationship terms are very ancient and go back to times when life spans were much shorter. There simply isn’t a specific term for some relationships (my maternal uncle’s sister-in-law).
Parking-Aioli9715
Me personally, I would say that B's daughter is M's aunt by marriage or aunt-in-law. Logically, this makes B M's granddaughter-in-law. For everyday talking purposes, Grandma should be fine.
JayPlenty24
Great-Aunt through marriage.
candacallais
No relation…my uncle’s wife’s parents are random strangers. I’ve never met them. Probably they’re something like 8th cousins twice removed if I really did the research.
I could see grandparent-in-law being a thing in certain situations, like when people live together in a close setting and children are raised communally. In general it’s not a thing in the West though.
tinaalsgirl
My mom has taken to calling her "by marriage" niblings her "nephew/niece in love". Longtime friends' kids have become her "grandkids in love".
At least one of my niblings' cousins on my BiL's side just call me Aunt because my nibs do.
In fact, in our giant extended family, mine and my sister's cousins are all aunts and uncles to my sister's kids. Our cousin group was very tightknit so we all treat each other like siblings more than "just" cousins, so the cousins are all aunts and uncles to the other cousins' kids.
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