I thought Russian was hard, but apparently the Polish language distinguishes between a male cousin who is the son of an uncle (“brat stryjeczny”) and a male cousin who is the son of an aunt (“brat cioteczny”); and a female cousin who is the daughter of an uncle (“siostra stryjeczna”) and a female cousin who is the daughter of an aunt (“siostra cioteczna”).

Ouch!

See wikipedia for more linguistic befuddlement

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