Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| adoptee | one who is adopted. |
| adoptive | due to adoption; having the specified familial relation by adoption > ADOPTIVELY. |
| affinal | related by marriage. |
| affine | a relation by marriage > AFFINES; (adj.) related by marriage > AFFINELY. |
| affined | related, bound by some tie. |
| agnate | related on father's side; (noun) a relative on the father's side. |
| agnatic agnatical | pertaining to descent by the male line of ancestors > AGNATICALLY. |
| agnation | relationship on the father's side. |
| aiga ainga | in Samoa, a large family, often spanning several generations. |
| akin | related by kin. |
| ancestor | someone from whom a person is descended, a forefather; (verb) to be an ancestor to > ANCESTORS, ANCESTORING, ANCESTORED. |
| ancestorial | relating to ancestors. |
| ancestral | relating to ancestors > ANCESTRALLY. |
| ancestress | a female ancestor. |
| ancestry | a line or body of ancestors. |
| atavic | pertaining to a remote ancestor. |
| aunt | a father's or mother's sister, or an uncle's wife. |
| aunthood | the state of being an aunt. |
| auntie aunty | a familiar name for an aunt. |
| auntlike | like an aunt. |
| auntly | like an aunt > AUNTLIER, AUNTLIEST. |
| aunty | see AUNTIE. |
| aval | pertaining to a grandparent. |
| avital | ancestral. |
| avuncular | suggestive of an uncle, esp. in kindliness or geniality > AVUNCULARLY. |
| babydaddy | (US slang) the father of a child, esp a man who is not the current partner of the child’s mother. |
| bahu | (Hindi) a daughter-in-law, especially one who lives with her husband's family when married. |
| beenah | a form of marriage in Sri Lanka, in which the man goes to live with his wife's relatives. [Arabic binah, separate]. |
| bespouse | to marry. |
| beuncled | having uncles. N.B. no BEUNCLE*. |
| bioparent | a biological parent, not a step-parent. |
| biparental | relating to or derived from two parents. |
| brer | brother. |
| brother | a male in relation to another person of either sex born of the same parents > BROTHERS or BRETHREN; BROTHERLY; (verb) to make a brother of; treat or address as brother > BROTHERS, BROTHERING, BROTHERED. |
| brotherhood | the quality or state of being brothers. |
| brotherlike | like a brother. |
| brotherliness | the state of being BROTHERLY. |
| brotherly | like a BROTHER. |
| bubbe bubbie | a Jewish grandmother. |
| child | an offspring > CHILDREN, CHILDLY; (verb) to bear a child > CHILDS, CHILDING, CHILDED. |
| childer | children. |
| childless | having no children. |
| childlessness | the state of being CHILDLESS. |
| childly | having the character of a CHILD > CHILDLIER, CHILDLIEST. |
| chirren | (dial.) children. |
| cion | a young member of a family, a SCION. |
| clan | a united group of families. |
| clannish | characteristic of a clan > CLANNISHLY. |
| clannishness | the state of being CLANNISH. |
| clanship | a feeling of loyalty to a clan. |
| clansman | a member of a clan. |
| clanswoman | a female member of a clan. |
| cognate | related by birth > COGNATELY; (noun) someone or something descended from a common ancestor > COGNATES. |
| cognation | relationship by blood; descent from the same original. |
| cohab | a COHABITOR, one who cohabits. |
| cohabit | to live together as husband and wife > COHABITS, COHABITING, COHABITED. |
| cohabitee | one who is cohabited with. |
| conjugal | belonging to marriage; suitable or appropriate to the marriage state or to married persons > CONJUGALLY. |
| connubial | of or relating to marriage. |
| consanguine consanguineoUS | of the same blood or origin; specifically, descended from the same ancestor. |
| coparent | a joint parent; (verb) to share the parenting of > COPARENTS, COPARENTING, COPARENTED. |
| cousin | a child of one's aunt or uncle > COUSINLY. |
| cousinage | relationship; kinship. |
| cousinhood | the state or condition of a cousin; also, the collective body of cousins. |
| cousinly | like or becoming a COUSIN. |
| cousinry | cousins collectively. |
| cousinship | the state of being cousins. |
| coz | a cousin > COZZES. (COZES exists from the verb COZE). |
| cuz | a cousin > CUZZES or CUZES. |
| cuzzie | in New Zealand, a cousin > CUZZES. |
| dad daddy | (coll.) a father. |
| dalt dault | a foster-child. |
| dam | a mother esp. of an animal. |
| daughter | a female child > DAUGHTERLY. |
| daughterliness | the state of being DAUGHTERLY. |
| daughterling | a small daughter. |
| daughterly | as becomes a DAUGHTER, filial. |
| dault | see DALT. |
| deuterogamist | someone who remarries after a spouse's death. |
| deuterogamy | a second marriage after the death of the first spouse. |
| digamist | someone who remarries after a spouse's death. |
| digamous | pertaining to a second marriage, that is, one after the death of the first wife or the first husband. |
| digamy | the act, or state, of being twice married. |
| divorce | to terminate the marriage contract between |
| divorcee | a divorced woman. |
| divorcer | one who divorces. |
| eme | (obs.) an uncle. |
| enate | a relation on mother's side. |
| enatic | related on the mother's side. |
| endogamic | relating to ENDOGAMY, marriage within the group. |
| endogamy | marriage within one's own group. |
| espouse | to betroth, marry. |
| exogamic exogamous | relating to EXOGAMY. |
| exogamy | marriage outside one's group. |
| faither | (Scots) father. |
| familial | characteristic of a family. |
| familism | the tendency of a family to cohere as a group. |
| family | a group of persons related by blood or marriage. |
| father | a male parent > FATHERLY; (verb) to cause to exist > FATHERS, FATHERING, FATHERED. |
| fatherhood fathership | the state of being a father. |
| fatherless | without a father. |
| fatherlike | like a father. |
| fatherliness | the state of being FATHERLY. |
| fatherly | like a FATHER. |
| fiance | one (male) who is betrothed. |
| fiancee | one (female) who is betrothed. |
| filial | of or relating to an offspring > FILIALLY. |
| filiate | to adopt as son or daughter; to establish filiation between. |
| filiation | the relationship of a son or child to a parent, esp. to a father. |
| filius | (Latin) a son > FILII |
| firstborn | the first in order of birth, the eldest child. |
| forebear | an ancestor. |
| forefather | a male ancestor. |
| foremother | a female ancestor. |
| fosterling | a foster child. |
| fra | (Ital.) brother > FRAS. |
| fraternal | belonging to a brother or brethren > FRATERNALLY. |
| genetrix | a mother; a female ancestor > GENETRIXES or GENETRICES. |
| genitor | one who begets; an originator. |
| genitrix | a mother; a female ancestor > GENITRICES or GENITRIXES. |
| gens | an ancient Rome a clan including several families descending from a common ancestor > GENTES. |
| german | of the first degree, full (see brother, cousin); (noun) a full brother or sister; a near relative. |
| godchild | one whom a person sponsors at baptism. |
| goddaughter | a female GODCHILD. |
| godfather | a male GODPARENT; (verb) to be a godfather to > GODFATHERS, GODFATHERING, GODFATHERED. |
| godmother | a female GODPARENT; (verb) to act as a godmother > GODMOTHERS, GODMOTHERING, GODMOTHERED. |
| godparent | a person who, at baptism, guarantees a child's religious education. |
| godson | a male GODCHILD. |
| goel | the avenger of blood among the Hebrews, the next of kin whose job it was to hunt down a murderer. |
| gogo | (South African) a grandmother. |
| goodsire gudesire gutcher | a grandfather. |
| gramp grampa | (coll.) a grandfather. |
| grampy | (coll.) a grandfather. |
| gran | (coll.) a grandmother. |
| grandad granddad grandaddy granddaddy | a grandfather. |
| grandam grannam grandamE | a grandmother. |
| grandaunt | the aunt of one's father or mother. |
| grandbaby | an infant grandchild. |
| grandchild | the child of one's son or daughter. |
| granddad | see GRANDAD. |
| granddam | an animal grandmother. |
| grandfather | the father of one's mother or father > GRANDFATHERLY. |
| grandkid | (coll.) a grandchild. |
| grandma grandmama grandMAMMA | a grandmother. |
| grandmother | the mother of one's mother or father > GRANDMOTHERLY. |
| grandniece | the granddaughter of one's brother or sister. |
| grandpa grandpapa | a grandfather. |
| grandsir grandsire | a grandfather. |
| grandson | a son of one's son or daughter. |
| granduncle | a father's or mother's uncle. |
| granfer | grandfather. |
| grannam | see GRANDAM. |
| granny | (coll.) a grandmother. |
| grannyish | like a granny. |
| gudesire | see GOODSIRE. |
| gutcher | see GOODSIRE. |
| hetaerism hetairism | concubinage; a system of communal marriage. |
| hetairismic | relating to HETAIRISM. |
| hetairist | an advocate of HETAIRISM, concubinage. |
| hubby | (coll.) a husband. |
| husband | a man to whom a woman is married > HUSBANDLY; (verb) to spend wisely > HUSBANDS, HUSBANDING, HUSBANDED. |
| husbandless | without a husband. |
| husbandly | of or like a HUSBAND. |
| hymenaeal hymenaean hymenean | of or relating to marriage. |
| hymeneal | of or relating to marriage > HYMENEALLY; (noun) a marriage-hymn. |
| hypergamy | the marriage of a man to a woman of lower status. |
| interclan | between clans. |
| kin | one's relations. |
| kindred | relationship by blood. |
| kindredness | relatedness by kinship. |
| kindredship | relatedness by kinship. |
| kinfolk kinsfolk | people related to one. |
| kinless | without kin. |
| kinred | (Spenser) kindred. |
| kinsfolk | see KINFOLK. |
| kinship | relationship. |
| kinsman | a male relative. |
| kinswoman | a female relative. |
| levirate | the ancient Hebrew custom of compulsory marriage with a childless brother's widow. |
| leviratic leviratical | relating to LEVIRATE. |
| leviration | levirate marriage or marriages. |
| lignage | lineage. |
| lineage | direct descent from an ancestor. |
| lynage | lineage. |
| ma | (coll.) mother. |
| madre | (Spanish) mother. |
| mam | (coll.) mother. |
| mama | (coll.) mother. |
| mammie mammy | a child's name for mamma, mother. |
| marital | relating to marriage. |
| marriage | the legal union of a man and woman. |
| married | a married person > MARRIEDS. |
| marrier | one who marries. |
| marry | to enter into marriage. |
| mater | (Latin) mother > MATERS or MATRES. |
| materfamilias | the mother or female head of family > MATRESFAMILIAS or MATERFAMILIASES. |
| maternal | pertaining to a mother > MATERNALLY. |
| matriclinic matroclinic | more like the mother than the father. |
| matrifocal | in anthropology, focused on the mother. |
| matrilineal | descended in the mother's line > MATRILINEALLY. |
| matriliny | descent reckoned through the mother. |
| matrimony | the rite or institution of marriage; the action of marrying. |
| matroclinic | see MATRICLINIC. |
| mesalliance | a marriage with a person thought to be of inferior social position; an unsuitable union. |
| metapelet | a woman acting as a foster-mother to children on a kibbutz > METAPLOT. |
| minnie | (coll.) mother > MINNIES. |
| mokopuna | (Maori) a grandchild or young person > MOKOPUNAS. |
| mom | (coll.) mother. |
| momma | (coll.) mother. |
| monandry | marriage to only one man at a time. |
| monogamic | pertaining to, or involving, MONOGAMY. |
| monogamy | marriage with one person at a time. |
| monogynist | one who practises MONOGYNY, having only one wife at a time. |
| monogyny | having only one wife at a time. |
| morganatic | relating to a marriage between people of unequal rank (latterly only where one is of a reigning or mediatized house), the marriage being valid, the children legitimate, but unable to inherit the higher rank. |
| mother | a female parent; a slimy mass of bacteria that oxidizes alcohol into acetic acid > MOTHERY; (verb) to give birth to > MOTHERS, MOTHERING, MOTHERED. |
| motherly | maternal. |
| mumsy | mummy > MUMSIES. |
| nan nana nanna nanny | a grandmother. |
| nannyish | like a grandmother, overprotective. |
| naunt | an aunt. |
| nephew | a son of one's brother or sister. |
| ngati | (Maori) a tribe or clan > NGATIS. |
| niece | a daughter of one's brother or sister. |
| nonfamily | something that is not a family. |
| nonkin | those who are not kin. |
| novercal | of or pertaining to a stepmother. [L. noverca, stepmother]. |
| nuncle | an uncle. |
| oe oy oye | a grandchild. |
| octuplet | one of eight (children or animals) born at one birth. |
| offspring | a child or children; progeny. |
| oma | (German) a grandmother. |
| opa | (German) a grandfather. |
| oom | (S. Afr.) an uncle. |
| orphan | to deprive of both parents. |
| orphanhood | the state of being an ORPHAN. |
| orphanism | the state of being an orphan, orphanhood. |
| ouma | (S. Afr.) a grandmother. |
| oupa | (S. Afr.) a grandfather. |
| oy | see OE. |
| oye | see OE. |
| pantagamy | marriage in which all spouses are held in common; free love. |
| papa | (coll.) a father. |
| parent | someone who begets or brings forth offspring; (verb) to exercise the functions of a parent (a father or mother) > PARENTS, PARENTING, PARENTED. |
| parentage | descent from parents, extraction. |
| parental | pertaining to a parent > PARENTALLY. |
| pater | (Lat.) father. |
| paterfamilias | the head of the family > PATRESFAMILIAS or PATERFAMILIASES. |
| paternal | pertaining to a father > PATERNALLY. |
| paternity | fatherhood. |
| patrifocal | centred on the father. |
| patrilineal | descended in the father's line > PATRILINEALLY. |
| patriliny | descent reckoned through the father. |
| pedigree | an ancestral lineage > PEDIGREES, PEDIGREED. [OF. pie de grue, cran'es foot. A genealogical chart was thought to resemble this]. |
| pedigreed | having a PEDIGREE. |
| pere | (Fr.) father > PERES. |
| phratral phratric | relating to a PHRATRY, a clan or tribe. |
| phratry | a clan or tribe. [Gk. phratria]. |
| polyandry | marriage to several men at the same time. |
| polygamy | marriage to more than one person at a time. |
| polygynist | one who practises POLYGYNY, marriage to several women. |
| polygyny | marriage to several women. |
| pop poppa | (coll.) papa > POPPAS. |
| primigravida | a first-born > PRIMIGRAVIDAS or PRIMIGRAVIDAE. |
| primogenitor | the earliest ancestor; an ancestor or a forefather. |
| progenitress progenitrix | a female parent or ancestor. |
| progeny | offspring. |
| proposita | a woman from whom a line of descent is traced > PROPOSITAE. |
| propositus | an individual to whom the family relationships of others are reckoned; spec. (a) Med. the first member of a family to be investigated by a researcher; (b) Law a testator when making a will > PROPOSITI. |
| punalua | (Hawaii) the marriage of brothers of one family to sisters of another > PUNALUAS. |
| punaluan | (Hawaii) pertaining to PUNALUA. |
| quad quadruplet | one of four (children or animals) born at one birth. |
| quin quintuplet | one of five (children or animals) born at one birth. |
| relative | in relation to > RELATIVELY; (noun) one who is connected with another by blood or marriage > RELATIVES. |
| rellie | (Aust. sl.) a relatives. |
| rello | (Aust. sl.) a relative > RELLOS. |
| scion | a young member of a family. |
| sept | a division of a tribe; a clan. |
| septuplet | one of seven (children or animals) born at one birth. |
| seyen | (Shakesp.) a scion. |
| sib sibb sybbe | a blood relation. |
| sibling | a person who has both parents in common with oneself. |
| sibship | kinship. |
| sien sient syen | a SCION. |
| sire | a fatehr, esp. of a horse or other animal; (verb) to beget. |
| sister | a female sibling; (verb) to be a sister to; to call sister. |
| sisterhood | the state of being a sister. |
| sisterless | without a sister. |
| sisterlike | like a sister. |
| sisterliness | the state of being SISTERLY. |
| sisterly | of or resembling a sister. |
| son | a male offspring, SONLY. |
| sonhood | the state of being a son. |
| sonless | being without a son. |
| sonlike | like a son. |
| sonly | pertaining to a son > SONLIER, SONLIEST |
| sonny | (coll.) a son. |
| sonship | the state of being a son. |
| sororal | pertaining to sisters > SORORALLY. |
| sororate | the marriage of a man to his wife's sister. |
| sororial | pertaining to sisters > SORORIALLY. |
| sororise soroize | to associate in a sisterly way. |
| sorority | sisterhood; in America, a club of college girls. |
| spousage | marriage. |
| spousal | the state of being married > SPOUSALLY. |
| spouse | to betroth, marry > SPOUSES, SPOUSING, SPOUSED. |
| spouseless | without a spouse, unmarried. |
| stepbairn | a stepchild. |
| stepbrother | a son of one's stepparent by a former partner. |
| stepchild | a wife's or husband's but not one's own child, daughter or son. |
| stepdad | a stepfather. |
| stepdame | a STEPMOTHER. |
| stepdaughter | a daughter of one's wife or husband by a former partner. |
| stepfamily | a family acquired by a second marriage. |
| stepfather | the husband of one's mother when distinct from one's natural or legal father. |
| stepmother | the wife of one's father when distinct from one's natural or legal mother. |
| stepmotherly | like a STEPMOTHER. |
| stepmum | a stepmother. |
| stepparent | a person who is a stepmother or stepfather. |
| stepparenting | parenting by a STEPPARENT. |
| stepsister | a daughter of one's stepparent by a former partner. |
| stepson | a son of one's spouse by a former marriage. |
| stirp | a branch of a family; pedigree. |
| stirps | a branch of a family; pedigree > STIRPES. [L. stirps, stock, stem]. |
| subclan | a division of a clan. |
| sybbe | see SIB. |
| syen | see SIEN. |
| taata | in East Africa, a father. |
| tipuna tupuna | (Maori) an ancestor. |
| tittie titty | a sister. |
| tribe | a set of people theoretically of common descent; an aggregate of families. |
| tribal | related to a TRIBE > TRIBALLY; (noun) a member of an aboriginal tribe of India > TRIBALS. |
| tribesman | a (male) member of a TRIBE. |
| tribeswoman | a (female) member of a TRIBE. |
| tribespeople | people belonging to a TRIBE. |
| trigamist | one who has been married three times; also, one who has three husbands or three wives at the same time. |
| trigamous | of the nature of, involving or living in TRIGAMY. |
| trigamy | the state of being married to three spouses. |
| trilling | one child of triplets. |
| trin | a triplet by birth. |
| triplet | one of three (children or animals) born at one birth. |
| tupuna | see TIPUNA. |
| twin | either of two born at a single birth. |
| twinborn | one of twins. |
| twinling | a young or little twin, especially a twin lamb. |
| twinship | the condition or relation of a twin. |
| unakin | not akin. |
| unchild | to bereave of children; to make childless. |
| uncle | one's mother's or father's brother, or an aunt's husband; (verb) to address as uncle > UNCLES, UNCLING, UNCLED. |
| uncleship | the office or position of an uncle. |
| unfathered | having no father; fatherless; hence, born contrary to nature. |
| unfatherly | not FATHERLY. |
| unfilial | unsuitable to a son or a daughter > UNFILIALLY. |
| unilineal | tracing descent through the paternal or maternal line only. |
| unmotherly | not MOTHERLY. |
| unparented | having no parent, or no acknowledged parent. |
| unwed | not wed. |
| unwedded | not wedded. |
| unwive | to deprive of a wife. |
| uxorial | of or relating to a wife > UXORIALLY. |
| viduage | widowhood; widows collectively. |
| vidual | pertaining to VIDUAGE, widowhood. |
| viduity | widowhood. |
| wed | to marry. |
| wedlock | the state of being married. |
| whakapapa | (Maori) a family tree. |
| whanau | (Maori) a family, esp an extended one > WHANAUS. |
| wife | a woman who has a husband > WIVES, WIFELY; (verb) to take to wife > WIFES, WIFING, WIFED. |
| wifedom | the state of being a wife. |
| wifehood wivehood | the state of being a wife. |
| wifeless | having no wife. |
| wifelike | of, pertaining to, or like, a wife or a woman. |
| wifeliness | the state of being WIFELY. |
| wifely | like a WIFE. |
| wifey | an endearment for wife > WIFEYS. |
| wifie | an endearment for WIFE > WIFIES. |
| wive | to take for a wife; to become the wife of > WIVES, WIVING, WIVED. |
| wivehood | see WIFEHOOD. |
| zaida zaideh zaidy zeda | (Yiddish) a grandfather. |