All in the family.

I was just wondering about different ways to refer to relatives in
different languages (artificial or natural).  There seems to be a lot of
different ways to do it in natural languages.  Most distingish by sex,
some others also by age.  Chinese has different words for "older
brother" and "younger brother" for example.  In Swedish it's not just
"grandfather" but "farfar" (father's father" or "morfar" (mother's
father.

So how would you say  ...  ?

	parent
	father
	mother
	step-father
	step-mother

	grandparent
	grandfather
	grandmother

	great-(...)grandparent
	great-(...)grandfather
	great-(...)grandmother

	parent's sibling
	uncle
	aunt

	offspring
	son
	daughter
	step-son
	step-daughter

	grandchild
	grandson
	granddaughter

	parent's sibling's offpring
	cousin (m)
	cousin (f)
	
	sibling
	brother
	sister
	half-brother
	half-sister
	step-brother
	step-sister


And no need to get into weird stuff like "uncle-daddies", etc.


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