Language / Familial Terms [6]


Maybe if I weren't too fond of them. [-; Those terms came from the Wikipedia article for "relacja rodzinna". In fact I could only imagine somebody using those terms if they wanted to make it very clear that that uncle is not a blood-uncle -- and I can only imagine someone doing that in case of some contempt.

Of course I should have put wujek before wuj, as this is colloquial, but I don't seem to be able to edit my original post!

Someone else pointed out to me the following clarifications for inlaws:

father-in-law (husband's father): świekier, śwokier
mother-in-law (husband's mother): świekra
father-in-law (wife's father): teść
mother-in-law (wife's mother): teściowa


Nope -- my intention was to focus on the more advanced familial terms, but feel free to expand this list to include those too if you wish. I also left out 'father', 'mother', 'wife', 'husband', 'grandfather', 'grandmother', and other simple terms. I suppose they would be easy enough to have added, but I figured those were all pretty commonly known, even for beginners. There are probably more complex ones that I missed too. Speaking of which...


Are you pulling my leg? [-: Wait, I guess not... I'd never heard of such words before, but Wikipedia has enlightened me! In fact, I'd never thought about this stuff so much before today. I have no idea what the Polish terms for these would be, if they exist. Perhaps someone else here could help us with that?

Here's what they mean, according to Wikipedia:

"Half-siblings share only one parent. Extrapolating from that, if one of John's parents and one of Mary's parents are half-siblings, then John and Mary are half-first cousins."

"Double first cousins arise when two siblings reproduce with another set of siblings and the resulting children are related to each other through both parents' families. Double first cousins share both sets of grandparents in common and have double the degree of consanguinity than ordinary first cousins."