2006-10-18 19:42:48 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
From our own Father, Mother, Daughter, Son and Parents, and they get them from there Father, Mother, Daughter, Son and Parents and so on and so on.....
2006-10-22 13:36:06 · answer #1 · answered by Bont11 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some of them have Sanskrit origin - the word for brother in Sanskrit was 'brathar', for instance. But then most European languages (Finnish, Hungarian and Basque are excluded from this) have their ultimate source in Sanskrit. All romance languages, including Latin, derived originally from Sanskrit, and are called 'Indo-European languages'. Words for family members in modern English come through a Sanskrit-Latin-Celtic-Germanic-Norman family tree.
2006-10-20 07:13:24 · answer #2 · answered by Sinead C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These specific words have evolved from Old English, Norman, Germanic, Latin, and Greek words meaning the same words you identified.
The relationships of these words to one another designate the structure of a culture's kinship system.
2006-10-19 02:52:45 · answer #3 · answered by RG 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of them are of Latin origin but have been Germanicised and sometimes adulterated over time.
E. G.
Father = Paternal = Pater (Latin for Father)
Mother = Maternal = Mater (Latin for Mother)
Brother = Fraternal = Frater (Latin for Brother)
2006-10-19 03:30:15 · answer #4 · answered by Gaelan M 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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as for the rest i have no idea, but this seems to sum it up really
2006-10-19 03:30:10 · answer #5 · answered by LISA C 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
A dictionary !
2006-10-19 10:08:07 · answer #6 · answered by nicemanvery 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i have absolutly no idea!
2006-10-19 02:52:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
not sure how to answer this,
2006-10-19 02:46:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋