Relationships

Basic relationship words for translations

Parents

Base

parent

• mother (female parent)
• father (male parent)

Kinship modifiers

(no modifier) (generic parent)

• biological (biological parent)
• surrogate (temporary replacement, informal)
• foster (not usually biologically related, adoptive child)
• step (non-related spouse of a biological parent)

Siblings

Base

sibling

• brother (male sibling)
• sister (female sibling)

Relative age

(no modifier) (any age)

• older
  • oldest
• younger
  • youngest

Kinship modifiers

(no modifier) (unspecified)

• full (both biological parents are the same)
• half (one biological parent is the same)
  • consanguine (same biological father)
  • uterine (same biological mother)
• step (not biologically related, only by marriage of the parents)
  • motherly_step (the sibling's biological mother is my step mother)
  • fatherly_step ()the sibling's biological father is my step father)
• adopted (not related by blood or marriage, but legally part of the parents' family)
  • paternal_adopted (adopted by the same legal father only)
  • maternal_adopted (adopted by the same legal mother only)

Twin modifiers

(no modifier) (unspecified)

• twin (born from the same pregnancy)
  • dizygotic (two different eggs)
  • monozygotic (same egg, implies same sex)
    • conjoined (joined by a part of the body at birth)

Other modifiers (non-exclusive)

cross (sharing the same half-siblings, but not related by blood themselves) milk (breastfed by the same wet nurse, or biological child of the wet nurse) foster (raised in the same foster home)