niece
noun/niːs/
/niːs/
- the daughter of your brother or sister; the daughter of your husband’s or wife’s brother or sister compare nephewTopics Family and relationshipsa2Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French, based on Latin neptis ‘granddaughter’, feminine of nepos ‘nephew, grandson’, from an Indo-European root shared by Dutch nicht, German Nichte.
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