For My Spawn Points & Wombmates
Parents:
- parent
- responsible adult ("RA" for short)
- meal planner
- diaper dealer
- warden
- DNA donor
- spawn point
Siblings:
- sibling
- wombmate
- anklebiter (if younger)
- yardstick (if older)
Polite Pronouns:
- kind soul
- fellow stranger
- air sharer
- dear (works for everyone)
- love (works for everyone)
- young one
- elder
- cohort
Other Pronouns:
*Cheat: Steal them from other languages
Navajo: bí
Hawaiian: ia
Malay: orang, kawan
Azerbaijani: o
Pipil: yaja
Umbundu: eye
Bengali: সে (şé)
Telugu: -ది (-di)
Chechen: иза (iza)
Mapudungun: fey
Tahitian: ’oia
Bashkir: ул (ul)
Kazakh: ол (ol)
Mongolian: тэр (ter)
Aymara: jupa
Chichewa: iye
Lakota: iš
Tlingit: hú
Tagalog: siya
Uyghur: ئۇ (u)
Uzbek: u
Turkmen: ol
Turkish: o
Taos: ą́wąn
Wolof: moom
Chuukese: iiy
Tatar: ул (ul)
Georgian: ის (is)
Fijian: koya
Quechua: pay
Tibetan: ཁོང (khong)
Malagasy: izy
Guaraní: ha’e
Swahili: yeye
Haida: hal
Persian: او (u)
Havasupai: nyihá
Cherokee: Ꭰ- (a-), Ꭴ- (u-)
Comanche: iʔ, maʔ, oʔ, uʔ
Yapese: qiir
Pitjantjatjara: paluṟu
So English lacks the gender neutral options other languages have already. Just pick the ones you like and "borrow" them like the English do with everything else in the world.
Other Options:
- Use their name (and work on remembering it!)
- Use their nickname (with permission)
- Use their title/profession ("doctor" "professor" "student" "cadet")
Pronouns
pronoun (he/him/his/she/her/hers): ze/zim/zis
parent (mom/mother/dad/father): zether, zed (I recently found out from batmaninwuhan that a zether is a musical instrument, and I feel like that just makes the word that much cooler)
term of respect (ma'am/sir): sher/zar (at some point some kid used to call me "sher" and I decided that I liked it as a gender neutral term)
general title (Miss/Ms./Missus/Mrs./Mister/Mr.): This one I'm really not sure about. I kind of like "Master." That seems like something that can be used across all genders, and it's a word that already exists, which makes it easier to be adapted to nonbinary purposes.
I forgot to include this in the challenge, but if you want, you can do something for "guy" or "girl." Mine would be "no-bi." I sort of like the way it flows.
Let me know what you think!
Small Contribution
Just to add a few more to the list:
Wiin: Ojibwe. He/she him/her.
Wiya: Cree. Broad 3rd person term that can refer to people of either gender, animals, or objects. I thought this was an interesting one because it is so different from the way we catergorize things.
Two-Spirit: Is the general aboriginal term for a person with both a masculine and feminine spirit. Called “winkt” in Lakota.