Family ties can resemble the world wide web of the Internet. But the funniest thing begins when you try to grasp who has whom to whom and what word to call him. At first, you try for a long time to build a chain in your head, for example, who is your brother's wife to your sister. By the way, by whom? Let's talk about family ties.
Who accounts for whom
- As soon as they do not call the one who is the brother's wife. So, they call her brother. Sometimes the wife of a brother is called a sister-in-law (son-in-law). Now, so as not to get confused. Imagine two brothers - Sasha and Lenya. Each has a wife - Sveta (Sasha) and Galya (Lenina). So Sveta and Galya are daughters-in-law in relation to each other. Likewise, the wife of one brother is a daughter-in-law in relation to another brother. That is: Galya is Sasha's daughter-in-law, and Sveta is Leni's daughter-in-law.
- You can also say who is the wife of a cousin - bro.
- We go in the other direction, who is the husband's brother to his wife. We remember our heroes, let it be a pair of Sasha and Sveta. That is, who is Lenya (Sasha's brother) Sveta (his wife). Brother-in-law - that's how we call Lenya in this case. Sasha will also be dever in relation to Gala.
- Digging further. Who is the brother's wife to the sister. Let's imagine that Sasha and Leni have a sister - Nadia. That is, we decide the question of who Nadya Sveta and Galya (the brothers' wives) have. It's all the same brother or daughter-in-law. And Nadia is a sister-in-law in relation to Sveta and Galya. There is also a variation - sister-in-law (maybe the form reflects the nature of the relationship? - the author's thoughts).
- By the way, the son's wife is also called the daughter-in-law. That is, Sveta and Galya will be daughters-in-law in relation to the mother of Sasha and Leni.
- By the way, bro and bratelnik are forms that also have a certain meaning. This is the name of the cousin. And yes, a cousin is the son of your aunt or your uncle (that is, your mom's or your dad's brother or sister).
The wife's father is the husband's father. The female version of this definition is matchmaker, the wife's mother is the husband's mother. These terms are used to define father-in-law and father-in-law, as well as mother-in-law and mother-in-law in relation to each other.
Fathers of the newlyweds
A wedding is the creation of a new family, a new unit of society, as well as the fusion of two clans. A secret dream has come true, the relationship is officially formalized. After the celebration, the newlyweds have a question: "What is the correct name for the newly-made relatives?" After all, now the number of loved ones is increasing. How to designate new relatives and who is the wife's father to her husband's father?
A young spouse is obliged to call her husband's parents father-in-law. So, the husband's mother is the mother-in-law, and the father is the father-in-law. The spouse calls the wife's mother mother-in-law, and the father - father-in-law. Is there a definite term to define the relationship between the father of the wife and the father of the husband? Where did the name "matchmaker" come from?
There is no specific answer to this question, but philologists put forward various theories. But be that as it may, the word itself sounds kind and pleasant. The rhyme "brother-matchmaker" is widely known in proverbs and verses, and indeed, in the old days it was believed that marrying children meant becoming relatives and their parents.
New relatives - in-laws
The wife's father is a new relative for the husband's father. This relationship is otherwise called "property", from the word "own". Therefore, if you try to strictly adhere to the terminology, it is necessary to call the relatives who appeared after the registration of the union as in-laws.
The terms "matchmaker" and "matchmaker" are universal. Since they are suitable both for designating one parent, and for naming mom and dad from the side of the second spouse. Some people think that new relatives among themselves are godfathers, but this is a wrong statement. "Kum" and "godfather" are appeals to the child's godparents in relation to his biological father and mother.
When in conversation they recall a matchmaker or matchmaker in the third person, you can say: "My daughter's father-in-law ..." or "My son's mother-in-law ...". Under certain circumstances, this option for identifying relatives when communicating is much more convenient. To simplify the conversation, you can also use: "This is the mother-in-law / mother-in-law (name of the son or daughter)."
Which of the relatives should be called?
The closest bond is the bond between children and their parents. Dad, mom, daughter and son - those people from two neighboring generations, closer to whom you cannot find in the world. Home, parents' love - there is nothing dearer and dearer.
In the modern world, the terminology of family ties is rarely used in everyday life. It's not often that you hear the definitions of "brother-in-law" or "sister-in-law." Therefore, people are constantly confused, and most think that the wife's father is the father-in-law to the husband's father. However, this is a misnomer. Only her husband can call the spouse's father so, who, in turn, is a son-in-law in relation to his mother-in-law and father-in-law.
The terminology of kinship ties is rather complicated and forgotten. In everyday life, people use no more than 10 of the most common definitions. Sometimes in a conversation you have to resort to verbal heaps. For example: "She is my wife's sister, he is the husband of my wife's sister."
For ease of understanding of family ties, the Russian language has its own terms, and behind each term there are established ideas, culture of relations and family traditions for years. Although not every nation can afford such an excess.
There are three main groups of family ties:
- close relatives - blood connection;
- in-laws - family relations acquired after marriage registration;
- unrelated ties.
Father of wife to husband
Father-in-law is the spouse's dad for the husband. His wife is his wife's mother-in-law and mother. A son-in-law is a daughter's husband for dad and mom (mother-in-law and father-in-law), for her sister (sister-in-law) and for her brother (brother-in-law). In the event that the son-in-law suits the wife's parents, he is accepted as a family. Wise father-in-law and mother-in-law do not offend their son-in-law, they try to appease him in every possible way and treat him at a meeting. They avoid quarrels and conflicts, because the daughter will live with him.
The father of the wife for the husband - the father-in-law - usually rarely finds a reason for dispute. A mature man does not come up with non-existent shortcomings for his son-in-law, but tries to find common topics for conversation and spend interesting time together at his favorite pastime.
Husband's parents for spouse
The mother and father of the husband for the young wife are mother-in-law and father-in-law. For them, she is a daughter-in-law or daughter-in-law. A young girl will be the daughter-in-law of her husband's brother (brother-in-law), his wife, her husband's sister (sister-in-law), as well as her husband. Also, all relatives call the wife of her brother-in-law, the daughter-in-law. Spouses of siblings call each other a friend - a daughter-in-law or daughter-in-law. However, the sister-in-law is the wife's sister. And the brother-in-law is her husband. In-law are those men whose wives have sisters among themselves.
The sister-in-law is native sister spouse. In patriarchal families, the sister-in-law was in a higher position than the daughter-in-law - the brother's wife, and, as a rule, a young girl got more from her husband's sister than from her husband's mother.
When we get married or get married, our relatives immediately double in number. And all are called somehow. You can't remember it right away. No, well, you can't confuse your mother-in-law with anyone! But we’ll deal with the rest now ...
New relatives of the wife (bride)
Mother-in-law - this is the husband's mother. For the mother-in-law - her son's wife will daughter-in-law.
Father-in-law - this is the husband's father. For the father-in-law - his son's wife will daughter-in-law.
Sister-in-law - this is her husband's sister. For the sister-in-law, her brother's wife will daughter-in-law.
Brother-in-law - this is the husband's brother. For the brother-in-law, his brother's wife will daughter-in-law.
New relatives of the husband (groom)
Mother-in-law - this is the wife's mother. For a mother-in-law, her daughter's husband will son-in-law.
Who is the father-in-law
Father-in-law - this is the wife's father. For the father-in-law, as for the mother-in-law, the husband of their daughter - son-in-law.
Brother-in-law is the wife's brother. For his brother-in-law, his sister's husband, as well as for his parents - son-in-law.
Sister-in-law is the wife's sister. For the sister-in-law, as for the brother-in-law, the husband of their sister will son-in-law.
New family ties between the parents of the bride and groom
Svatya - this is the mother of one of the spouses for the parents of the other spouse.
Matchmaker - the father of one of the spouses for the parents of the other spouse.
Brother-in-law - this is the husband of one sister in relation to the husband of another. Any family ties between people who are not in close relationship are also called in-law.
Who are the godfathers
Qom and godfather - godfather and mother, but not for the godson, but among themselves and in relation to the parents and relatives of the godson.
Other relatives
All other relatives of your husband / wife will be named for you the same as for him / her. If your husband has a niece, she remains a niece for you. And you will be her uncle's wife for her.
A woman getting married, in addition to her spouse, also acquires new relatives in the person of her husband's sisters, brothers, father and mother, nephews, grandfathers and grandmothers. You have to establish relationships with them and establish contacts, if this has not happened before. They all develop in different ways: someone is happily accepted into the bosom of a new family, and someone is kept at a distance, without showing particularly warm feelings. Why is this happening? In a specific situation - your answer. Most often, misunderstandings are established between female relatives, as in the case of the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. It often happens that another relative, the husband's sister, also dislikes a spouse. Who is her wife, who her children are - further in the article.
Relatives and non-relatives
Kinship-family hierarchy consists of three groups of kinship ties. They have the following names: blood by blood, directly close relatives), kinship by marriage (in-laws) and unrelated ties. Blood relatives are mother, father, brothers, sisters (relatives, cousins, their children), grandmothers, grandfathers. Married relatives are relatives of a husband or wife. These are brother-in-law, sister-in-law, mother-in-law, father-in-law, brother-in-law, brother-in-law, and so on.
The husband's sister: who is the wife?
In this complex interweaving of branches of the family tree, each relative has its own name in relation to another member of the family clan. For example, the husband's sister. How is she related to her brother's wife? In the terminology of family relations, her husband's sister is her sister-in-law. Moreover, this relationship is not blood, but acquired as a result of a concluded marriage. In fact, these 2 women are relatives as long as the husband and wife remain spouses. entails the termination of family ties in this marriage. In the next marriage, new family ties are formed already in these marital relations, including between the relatives of the husband and wife.
Husband's sister, sister's husband, husband's sister's children
If a husband's sister is a sister-in-law in relation to his wife, then who is in relation to her blood relatives (father, mother, sisters, brothers) is a son-in-law. The family is created in order to give birth to children and continue their family. Babies are wonderful and are loved regardless of family status. Husband's sister - who is she to her brother's children? She is their own aunt. Accordingly, her future or present children will be her brother's nephews (blood relationship), and for the wife, the husband's sister's children will also be nephews, but with marriage relationship.
Informal relationship
It often happens that a husband's sister does not accept her brother's wife. This is mainly due to jealousy from both the sister-in-law and the daughter-in-law (the brother's wife for his sister). In fact, two women cannot share one man, not wanting to give each other control over his life and feelings. The sister-in-law believes that the wife alienates her brother from her, and in fact she is the most native person in the world. And the brother's wife does not want her to interfere in the life of the new family, out of habit continuing to control every action of the brother.
Families are not as big as they used to be. It is enough to know who the grandchildren, nephews, grandmothers, grandfathers, and cousins \u200b\u200bare. And all the rest are simply called relatives. But unlike other languages, Russian is not greedy, it has its own name for everyone. It is not easy to thoroughly figure out who belongs to whom of the relatives, and if the relatives of one of the spouses have been added, then it will take a couple of days to remember. To facilitate this process, www ..
Names of blood relatives
Before moving on to the names of future relatives, for a start it is worth figuring out who is to whom and by whom in his family. There are several degrees of kinship, they consider from the first to the sixth, since then the ties become too distant. So, the degrees are in descending order:
- Father - son / daughter, mother - son / daughter.
- Grandfather / grandmother - grandchildren.
- Great-grandfather / great-grandmother - great-grandchildren, uncles / aunts - nephews.
- A cousin / brother, great aunt / grandfather - great nephews / nieces.
- Uncles / aunts are great cousins \u200b\u200b/ nieces.
- Second cousins \u200b\u200band brothers.
Brothers / sisters of the mother or father, as well as their spouses, are called uncles / aunts, but wives and husbands are, of course, not blood relatives. There is also the concept of great and small uncles / aunts. The first was called the sister and brother of the grandfather / grandmother, and the second - the father / mother. Now they are simply called great-uncles / grandparents and great-uncles / aunts.
It's just that nephews are children of brothers / sisters, grand-nephews, respectively, their grandchildren. But grandchildren are also called any second cousins. Cousins \u200b\u200btoday are often called cousins \u200b\u200band cousins \u200b\u200bin the Western manner and have completely forgotten their old Russian names - sister and bro. Although the latter is common in certain youth circles, it does not imply consanguinity. By the way, if you are thinking about how to distribute responsibilities at a wedding, then keep in mind that everyone can be involved in organizing the celebration, even people of the sixth degree of kinship, if, of course, you are familiar with them.
The baptismal ceremony is important for many families, it is believed that the sooner it is done, the better. Therefore, as a rule, a child already in the first year of life has new relatives, and what are the names of the relatives who came to the family in this case, we all know well - godparents, among themselves and in relation to the child's parents, they are considered godfather and godfather. The godson and goddaughter, respectively, the girl and boy they baptized. Further, the word godfather (godmother) is added to all relatives from this side. But the cross brothers or sisters have a different meaning. This is the name of people who exchanged their own crosses. In addition to godparents, there may also be planted parents. This is the name of those who replace their father and mother at the wedding ceremony.
Not blood, but close
There are times when people who are not related by blood become a family, for example, when a man and a woman marry with children from previous marriages, or spouses adopt a child. In this case, family members will be called:
- stepmother is a stepmother,
- stepfather is a stepfather,
- stepson is a step-son,
- stepdaughter is a stepdaughter,
- the named son - adopted,
- named daughter - adopted,
- named mother and father are adoptive parents,
- stepbrothers and sisters - natural and step children among themselves.
Also, people whose names can be found more often in films and books than in reality can be classified as non-native, but close ones:
- dairy mother - a woman who nursed a step-child in relation to him,
- foster brother or sister - children who are not native to each other, fed by one woman,
- uncle, mother - a man or woman who looks after the child and brings up him, today better known as nannies and nannies.
Relationship by property or who is who after the wedding
As soon as the young people officially became husband and wife, the number of family ties of each of them multiplied by two. And it would be good to know the name of the relatives whom you just acquired, because in many families it is still customary to address each other according to a long-established tradition. Let's figure out who is to whom and by whom after the wedding.
Husband, wife and their parents
Everything is simple here, the names of the mothers and fathers of the spouses are widely known today and are still actively used. The wife's parents are father-in-law and mother-in-law, the husband's parents are father-in-law and mother-in-law. Fathers are matchmakers among themselves, and mothers are matchmakers. And they called them that because it was with their participation that the bride's matchmaking ceremony took place. After the wedding, the wife receives the status of daughter-in-law or daughter-in-law (for the husband's father), and the husband - son-in-law. It is interesting that in the Russian language there is a special word for a husband who settled with his wife's parents - primak. Previously, this was not accepted, apparently, that is why popular rumor singled out such husbands.
Brothers and sisters of young couples with spouses
The brother and sister of the husband, respectively, are called brother-in-law and sister-in-law, and the brother and sister of the wife are called brother-in-law and sister-in-law. The speakers of the Eastern European dialect also call the brothers on both sides Schwager.
As for the brothers' wives, their names and who they are to each other, the Russian language did not skimp on names. There are more of them than for any other relatives - yatrovki, intercourse, and in some regions, like the husband's sister, they have the name of sister-in-law. Accordingly, wives of brothers in relation to each other are also called.
