2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21
Each of the people living in the world has its own story, it goes deep into the past. In order to restore the connection of generations, they make up a family tree, draw tables of kinship. Hundreds of intricate names can be found there, all of them were invented in order to name one or another relative, which number more than one dozen, especially in large families. It is quite difficult to remember the entire list, but it is necessary to know how at least your closest people by blood are called correctly. A cousin is also a close relative.
Borrowing from the West
Where did the name "cousin" come from? This word is borrowed from English. In English-speaking countries, the word cousin refers to children from relatives, blood and uterine brothers and sisters of your parents. Simply put, translated from English, "cousin" is "cousin." By the way, the French have a similar sounding word - cousine.
For those who were born and raised in the Soviet Union or in the post-Soviet space, it is rather strange to realize that a cousin is a cousin. This word was not used by our people, it was inspired by the West. In most families, without bothering to make up stories, they call cousinssisters are just cousins.
How was it in Russia?
Our ancestors also did not know that a cousin is a cousin. Therefore, such a relative of the strechka was called. No less intricate designations were given by our ancestors to such relatives as paternal cousins. They were called striarchs. If the relationship occurred on the maternal side, then the cousin was called Uyets or Uychich. All these names are formed from the old Russian designations of the sisters and brothers of the father themselves (stry, stry), as well as the name of the mother's brother - uy. Oddly enough, but mother's sister was called simply and uncomplicated - aunt.
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