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
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?
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
| english | swedish |
|---|---|
| mother | mor |
| father | far |
| maternal grandmother | mormor |
| maternal grandfather | morfar |
| paternal grandmother | farmor |
| paternal grandfather | farfar |
| sister | syster |
| brother | bror |
| maternal aunt | moster* |
| maternal uncle | morbror |
| paternal aunt | faster* |
| paternal uncle | farbror |
| child | barn |
| grandchild | barnbarn |
| daughter | dotter |
| son | son |
| daughter's child | dotterbarn |
| son's child | sonbarn |
| daughter's daughter | dotterdotter |
| daughter's son | dotterson |
| son's daughter | sondotter |
| son's son | sonson |
| sororal niece | systerdotter |
| sosoral nephew | systerson |
| filial niece | brordotter |
| filial nephew | brorson |
* while not as regular as the system otherwise, these still break down as mor + syster and far + syster

