Grandaunt: alternatives and connections

One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a "colored" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born o…

the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride's father’

One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.

To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father.

A male person who has the same father and mother with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case he is more defin…

A brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only.

One collaterally related more remotely than a brother or sister; especially, the son or daughter of an uncle or aunt.

the child of your aunt or uncle

The state of being a father; the character or authority of a father; paternity.

Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc.,…

A father's or mother's father; an ancestor in the next degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent.

The mother of one's father or mother.

A father's or mother's uncle.

The relation between persons born of the same father or of the same mother, but not of both; as, a brother or sister of the half blood…

To take by descent from an ancestor; to take by inheritance; to take as heir on the death of an ancestor or other person to whose esta…

Never having been married; not having had sexual intercourse; virgin; -- said usually of the woman, but sometimes of the man; as, a ma…

A child born of a white father and Indian mother.

Of or pertaining to a mother; becoming to a mother; motherly; as, maternal love; maternal tenderness.