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WHICH AUNT IS THE WUJENKA?

Polonius3Threads: 963 Posts: 4,545 Joined: Apr 11, 08 ♂	Jul 1, 08, 10:00 #1
If stryjenka is paternal aunt, ciotka is maternal aunt, then who is the wujenka?

dropsThreads: - Posts: 3 Joined: Apr 13, 08 ♀	Jul 1, 08, 10:14 #2
Wujenka was used in Old Polish and it meant "wife of mother's brother" (at least wiki says so).

Polonius3Threads: 963 Posts: 4,545 Joined: Apr 11, 08 ♂	Jul 1, 08, 10:17 #3
If the father's sistrer is a stryjenka, does that make the outsider she marries a stryj, or is he simply a wujek?

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Jul 2, 08, 09:58 #4

Polonius3:

If the father's sistrer is a stryjenka, does that make the outsider she marries a stryj, or is he simply a wujek?

In modern Polish everyone is just "wuj/wujek", we hardly use those older terms like stryj, stryjenka, wujenka, at least not my generation, and I'm almost 40 :)
But you're wrong here. Sisters (both on your fahter's and your mother's side) were called "ciotka/ciocia", so in your case she wouldn't be stryjenka, but ciocia and her husband - wuj/wujek.

Stryj was only father's brother, stryjenka that brother's wife. I know it's sexist :)

jacobiswuj	Jan 11, 09, 20:29 #5
Ahh, but don't forget terms like pociot, ciotka's husband.

steevenusx	Jan 3, 10, 08:33 #6
And then there is the "naciot" - the "husband" of the father's sister ("stryjenka")

ofkinn	Jan 13, 10, 04:53 #7
Is WUJ a brother of DZIADEK or BABCIA from mother's side? Is SRYJNA a sister of DZIADEK or BABCIA from father's side? Is WUJNA a sister of DZIADEK or BABCIA from mother's side IS STRYJENKA a sister of father or wife of STRYJEK?