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

In case of multiple variants matching, the one with most matches wins. In case of a tie, the priority of matches is: base, kinship, relative age, twin, others.

Base

sibling

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

Relative age

(no modifier) (any age)

• older
  • oldest
• younger
  • youngest

Kinship

(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)
  • maternal_step (the sibling's biological mother is my step mother)
  • paternal_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

(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)
• no_twin (specifically not a twin sibling)

Others (non-exclusive)

Those act as a flags. All have a corresponding no_flagname flag to denote the absence of such relationship, where needed.

cross (sharing the same half-siblings, but not related by blood themselves, implies not full, half or twin)

milk (breastfed by the same wet nurse, or biological child of the wet nurse)

foster (raised in the same foster home)