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Also, sibling is not a 20th century invention in gender neutrality. Sibling is an old English word meaning a kinsmen or relative. It simply saw a revival in the

• roywiggins 10y ago
  You're right, but when people began to hear it again in the 20th century, they didn't think "ah, I know that word! It's Old English." It wasn't, at the beginning of the 20th Century, an English word at all. I'm not sure reintroducing a word from a long-dead language (even if it's an antecedent to your own) is much different from just making a new word up, other than it might sound a bit better if the language is related. Words can come from anywhere; why not invent the ones you need? Laser radar quark...