Do you know the name of family ties well enough, can you easily guess the riddles of V. I. Dalia
from his collection of jokes, proverbs and sayings of the Russian language: “Is the brother-in-law’s nephew related to the son-in-law?” or “Two daughters, two mothers, and a grandmother and granddaughter, but all of them …?”. It turns out that everything is simple, the answer to the first riddle is a son, and to the second - three: a granddaughter, a daughter and a mother.
Terms indicating kinship are perhaps one of the most ancient words in any dialect. Slavic terms originated in Ancient Russia and amaze with their diversity. The name of family ties can be conditionally divided into three groups: blood - when there is a common ancestor, property - based on marriage unions, and spiritual kinship: nepotism and twinning.
Direct blood relationship
Blood relationships in neighboring generations are determined by parents (father, mother) and children (son, daughter, illegitimate children).
The father is called a man, and the mother - a woman in relation to theirchildren. Accordingly, a son and a daughter are a boy and a girl in relation to their parents. Blood relationship through the generation is grandfathers, grandmothers and grandchildren with granddaughters. Grandfather is the father of the mother or father, the husband of the grandmother, who, in turn, is the mother of the mother or father. Kinship through two generations by analogy is determined by great-grandfathers and great-grandmothers, great-grandchildren and great-granddaughters. When it comes to blood ties through many generations, here you can already find some rare and unknown name for family ties. For example, an ancestor and an ancestor are the father and mother of a great-grandfather or great-grandmother, and a proband is the person with whom the compilation of a pedigree begins.
Indirect consanguinity
Blood indirect relationship is no longer vertical, but rather horizontal, that is, it spreads along the branches, along the lines of father and mother. A brother is a son in relation to other children of his parents, and a sister is, respectively, a daughter. Cousins are the children of an uncle and aunt, second cousins are the children of a cousin and an aunt, fourth cousins of second cousins, and so on. An uncle, in turn, is a man in relation to the children of his sister and brother, and an aunt is a woman in relation to them. Nephew and niece are children of uncle and aunt.
Property
Speaking of properties - relationships based on marriage, I would like to note that, oddly enough, the spouses are not relatives. This is only a marriage, not a relationship. Here are someproperty terms: father-in-law and mother-in-law - the wife's parents, father and mother; father-in-law and mother-in-law - husband's parents, father and mother; brother-in-law and sister-in-law - brother and sister of the husband, brother-in-law and sister-in-law - brother and sister of the wife; the husband of a daughter, sister-in-law and sister is a son-in-law; daughter-in-law - son's wife; male brothers-in-law, happy husbands of sisters.
Spiritual family ties. Titles
The name of spiritual ties
is due to such concepts as: godmother, he is also a godfather, he is also a godfather at the font, and godfather is a godmother. Godsons and daughters are, respectively, children in relation to those who baptized them. Cross brothers are men who exchanged pectoral crosses, and if women do this, they will become cross sisters for each other.
It is very difficult to remember all the names of family ties, there are actually a great many of them, many of them are outdated and gone into history, but we must know the main, most important names of people close to us. Each person is just a link in a long chain of generations, and perhaps our most sacred duty is to honor and respect our relatives.
