4.1.9.1 Related by birth

Use this domain for words referring to being related by birth--when one of your ancestors and one of someone else's ancestors are the same person.

OMC Codes: 
602 Kin Relationships
Louw Nida Codes: 
10A Groups and Members of Groups of Persons Regarded as Related by Blood but without Special Reference to Successive Generations
10B Kinship Relations Involving Successive Generations
  • What words refer to being related by birth?
    related by blood, be descended from, descent, direct line, lineal descent, consanguine,
  • What words refer to someone who is related to you by birth?
    blood relation,
  • What words refer to a listing of your ancestors?
    genealogy, lineage, pedigree, family tree,
  • What words refer to inheriting physical traits from your ancestors?
    genetics, inherit, heredity, run in the family, pass on, take after, bad blood, genes, breeding

    • 4.1.9.1.1 Grandfather, grandmother

    Use this domain for words referring to grandparents and ancestors.

    OMC Codes: 
    603 Grandparents and Grandchildren
  • What words refer to the parents of your parents?
    grandparent, grandfather, grandmother
  • What words refer to your ancestors?
    ancestor, forefather, forbearer, patriarch, matriarch, progenitor, background, origins
  • What words describe something having to do with your ancestors?
    ancestral, ancestry,

    • 4.1.9.1.2 Father, mother

    Use this domain for words related to parents.

  • What words refer to your parents?
    parent, folks,
  • What words refer to your father?
    father, dad, old man, pa, papa, sire,
  • What words do you use when talking to your father?
    Dad, Father, Daddy, Pop,
  • What words refer to your mother?
    mother, mom, mum, ma, mama
  • What words do you use when talking to your mother?
    Mom, Mum, Mother, Mommy, Mummy,
  • What words refer to the state of being a parent?
    fatherhood, motherhood, parenthood,
  • What words describe something having to do with your parents?
    parental, paternal, maternal, fatherly, motherly, parentage
  • If your father has more than one wife, what do you call his other wives?
    father's wife, second wife
  • If your father dies and your mother remarries, what do you call your mother's second husband?
    stepfather
  • If your mother dies and your father remarries, what do you call your father's second wife?
    stepmother

    • 4.1.9.1.3 Brother, sister

    Use this domain for words related to siblings.

    Related domains: 
    4.1.9.1.9 Birth order
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    10C Kinship Relations of the Same Generation
  • What words refer to the children of your father and mother?
    sibling, brother, sister
  • What words indicate the order in which your brothers and sisters were born?
    elder brother, elder sister, younger brother, younger sister
  • What words refer to the children of your father by another mother, or of your mother by another father?
    half-brother, half-sister
  • When your father or mother marries a person who already has children by a previous marriage, what words refer to those children?
    stepbrother, stepsister

    • 4.1.9.1.4 Son, daughter

    Use this domain for words referring to your children.

  • What words refer to your children?
    child, son, daughter, heir, scion, kid,
  • What words refer to all your children?
    children, family, issue, brood,
  • If you marry someone who already has children, what do you call his/her children?
    stepson, stepdaughter, stepchild,

    • 4.1.9.1.5 Grandson, granddaughter

    Use this domain for words referring to your grandchildren.

    OMC Codes: 
    603 Grandparents and Grandchildren
  • What words refer to the children of your children?
    grandchild, grandson, granddaughter
  • What words refer to your descendants?
    descendant, offshoot, offspring, posterity, progeny, line,

    • 4.1.9.1.6 Uncle, aunt

    Use this domain for words related to your uncles and aunts.

    OMC Codes: 
    604 Avuncular and Nepotic Relatives
  • What words refer to your father's brother?
    uncle
  • What words refer to your father's sister?
    aunt
  • What words refer to your mother's brother?
    uncle
  • What words refer to your mother's sister?
    aunt
  • What words refer to a brother or sister of one of your grandparents?
    granduncle, grandaunt, great-uncle, great-aunt

    • 4.1.9.1.7 Cousin

    Use this domain for words referring to your cousins.

    OMC Codes: 
    605 Cousins
  • What words refer to your father's brother's child?
    cousin
  • What words refer to your father's sister's child?
    cousin
  • What words refer to your mother's brother's child?
    cousin
  • What words refer to your mother's sister's child?
    cousin

    • 4.1.9.1.8 Nephew, niece

    Use this domain for words referring to your nephews and nieces.

  • What words refer to your brother's child?
    nephew, niece
  • What words refer to your sister's child?
    nephew, niece

    • 4.1.9.1.9 Birth order

    Use this domain for words related to birth order.

    Related domains: 
    4.1.9.1.3 Brother, sister
  • What words refer to the order in which a child was born?
    oldest, youngest, firstborn, second born, last born, middle child
  • What words refer to the only child of its parents?
    only child