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bethposting
@bethposting

trace along the family tree, one step at a time, and then concatenate shortened forms of each stepwise relationship. the shortened forms simply take the first syllable of existing basic kinship terms.

example: your mother's sister's son's daughter would be your mosisonda


PC36
@PC36

What exactly is considered basic here? Do terms like “half-sister”, “step-mother”, “godfather”, or even “grunkle” count? Would a stemomo actually be a fawimo? Would a hasis be a fada, or perhaps a fathexda for specificity? Are we calling the Godfather go now?


bethposting
@bethposting

i left that open on purpose to increase the flexibility of the system. what counts as basic is up to you. many relations will have multiple valid terms


PC36
@PC36

“My step-dad, or, my “brofa”-”

“Brofa?”

“Brofa deez nuts lmao”


nortti
@nortti
englishswedish
mothermor
fatherfar
maternal grandmothermormor
maternal grandfathermorfar
paternal grandmotherfarmor
paternal grandfatherfarfar
sistersyster
brotherbror
maternal auntmoster*
maternal unclemorbror
paternal auntfaster*
paternal unclefarbror
childbarn
grandchildbarnbarn
daughterdotter
sonson
daughter's childdotterbarn
son's childsonbarn
daughter's daughterdotterdotter
daughter's sondotterson
son's daughtersondotter
son's sonsonson
sororal niecesysterdotter
sosoral nephewsysterson
filial niecebrordotter
filial nephewbrorson

* while not as regular as the system otherwise, these still break down as mor + syster and far + syster


bethposting
@bethposting

yeah swedish actually was the direct inspiration for this system! my sispouse is swedish


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