Trinity grandmother. New relatives on the wife's side

Everyone knows who father-in-law and mother-in-law, father-in-law and mother-in-law are. Difficulties begin when it is necessary to remember the term for other relatives on the part of both spouses. Even people of advanced age will not always correctly name the name of the sister's husband.

Kinship is a property

In everyday communication, people who are related by blood to one of the spouses are usually called simply relatives on the part of the husband or wife. Meanwhile, such relations have a specific definition - a property. In Russian, each relative corresponds to a specific name. For example, the father-in-law is the father of the husband, the brother-in-law is the brother of the wife. The origin of these words is connected with the desire of a person to indicate the degree of kinship, as well as the place and position in the family of a new relative.

Daughter's or sister's husband

In Russian, the sister's husband is called the same as the daughter's husband - son-in-law. The word goes back to the ancient Indian jñātíṣ and ​​means relative, which indicates that the son-in-law is equated not just with a native person, but with a relative by blood. Interestingly, a man in relation to his wife's family will also be a son-in-law for her nephews, brothers, grandparents.

Son-in-law or brother-in-law?

The difficulty in finding the correct name for the sister's husband shows that it is usually not the terminology itself that causes difficulties, but the need for its correct application. So, the most common confusion is a pair of sons-in-law. If everything is clear with the son-in-law, then who should be called the brother-in-law, since this word also denotes the sister's husband? A brother-in-law is the husband of a sister-in-law, sister of the wife. Men married to sisters are brothers-in-law to each other. Sometimes only the husband of the elder sister is called the brother-in-law. Interestingly, in the Soviet musical fairy tale film “Don't Leave,” the heroine Ottilia calls her sister-queen's husband her brother-in-law, while in fact King Theodore is her son-in-law.

Sister's husband in other languages

In other languages, the sister's husband, as well as male relatives - the wife's brother, the husband's brother, the sister-in-law's husband - are most often denoted by one collective term:

• In English - brohter-in-law. Literally means brother by law.
• French - beau-frere, means brother-in-law, brother-in-law.
• German - Schwager.
• Italian - cognato.
• Ukrainian and Belarusian - son-in-law and son-in-law, respectively.

Some nationalities still clearly delineate subsystems of property. Therefore, each new relative in this subsystem has its own name:

• In the Tatar language, the elder sister's husband is called җizni. The younger sister's husband as well as the daughter's husband - kiyaү.
• Zhezde - the husband of the elder sister in Kazakh.

Updating and increasing the composition of the family entails building new relationships. What they will be depends more on mutual respect and less on correct terminology.

Dealing with family relationships is sometimes very difficult. It used to be, when huge families in several generations lived under the same roof, it was not difficult to remember who was who and who, because all these tricky terms were constantly heard. In our days, when relatives are sometimes scattered all over the globe and gather together only on the occasion of big events, the words “sister-in-law”, “brother-in-law”, “brother-in-law”, “daughter-in-law”, etc. many of us seem strange and completely incomprehensible. And yet, let's try to restore in our name so that we don’t have to guess later on occasion: “Brother’s wife - who is she to me?”

How to call brother's wife

For clarity, let's imagine a specific family, otherwise the infinitely intersecting vectors of kinship may make us dizzy. So, there were two brothers Ivan and Vasily. Both became serious men and got married. Ivan is on Marya, and Vasily is on Daria. And what do you think that we will need to answer the question, for example, Ivan: "My brother's wife, who is she to me?". Indeed, who is Daria to him now?

The older generation would answer this question that such a woman in Russia was most often called a sister-in-law, in some areas - an ash one, and closer to Ukraine she already had a different name - brother or yatrovka.

Each of the young wives - both Marya and Daria - have now acquired a new relative - a daughter-in-law (that is, they are each other's daughters-in-law or in-laws). By the way, not only the father-in-law with the mother-in-law, but also the husband's brother (that is, Marya became the daughter-in-law of Vasily, and Daria - Ivan), and the whole husband's family can call them daughters-in-law.

Who is the brother's wife from the point of view of his own sister

And in the case when siblings live in a family and a brother for a sister will be called something else? No, nothing new has been invented here - for a sister, her brother's wife will also turn out to be a daughter-in-law, or, in a different way, brotherly. But she herself will be a sister-in-law for the daughter-in-law. By the way, in some regions she was called "golden man" (probably from an excess of feelings!).

It is interesting that in the old days cousins ​​were called "bro" or "brother" (that's where these proud definitions of the era of the 90s come from!), And their wives, respectively, "bro". That is, finding out: “Brother's wife - who is she to me?”, know that siblings and cousins, as well as their wives, are defined in slightly different terms.

A little more about the husband's family

Analyzing who the brother’s wife is, we involuntarily dug deeper, and now we can’t help but mention how, after the wedding, Marya or Daria will have to call her husband’s brother. For Maria, Vasily (husband's brother) is a brother-in-law, and, as you understand, Daria can also call Ivan.

But if, for example, the same Daria has his own Stepan), then for Vasily (Daria's husband) he will be a brother-in-law or a schwager. And the son of Stepan, both for Vasily and for Ivan, will be Shurich. True, the last term is now considered completely outdated, and almost no one remembers it (but you can demonstrate your erudition!).

Let's add a little about imaginary and real relatives

And if we assume that Marya, Ivan's wife, has a married sister, then for Ivan she will be considered a sister-in-law, and her husband, respectively, a brother-in-law. That is, it turns out that brothers-in-law are family members whose wives are sisters. If we are talking about cousins, then their husbands will be considered cousins-in-law among themselves.

As you can see, having asked the question: “Who is my brother’s wife?”, we slowly figured out the rest of the relationship. And who knows, maybe this information will help you maintain a warm relationship in a new family. By the way, an interesting experiment conducted by British scientists can serve as a vivid example of this. They gathered previously unfamiliar people into a group, after informing some that they were relatives among themselves. It is interesting that in the future it was these people who established the closest friendly relations among themselves, assuring the researchers that kindred feelings suddenly woke up in them.

A little parting word for those who figured out who the brother's wife is

What is the name of a long series of relatives from the side of the wife and husband, we hope we have figured it out. It’s just worth once to draw for yourself at least a primitive scheme of these connections, and at the beginning of your married life it will be an excellent hint and a way to avoid awkward hitches in determining a new relationship. And after some time, you yourself will be able, with the air of a connoisseur, to answer the question of a bewildered newly-made relative: “My brother’s wife - who is she to me?”

And you must admit that instead of building a verbal chain like: “my brother’s wife’s sister”, it will be much easier to call kinship with one term “sister-in-law”. In addition, not fully mastering these terms, we make it difficult for ourselves to perceive literary works (and authors are very fond of using these names of relatives), as well as folklore and even everyday traditions that have come to us from the past.

1. Husband (husband)- a man in relation to a woman with whom he is married
2. Wife (wife)- a woman in relation to a man with whom she is married. Married woman.
3. father-in-law- wife's father
4. mother-in-law- wife's mother
5. father-in-law- husband's father
6. mother in law- husband's mother
7. brother-in-law- Brother husband
8. brother-in-law- brother-in-law
9. sister-in-law- husband's sister
10. brother-in-law- sister-in-law's husband
11. sister-in-law- wife's sister
12. son-in-law daughter's husband, sister's husband, sister-in-law's husband
13. daughter-in-law- the wife of a brother, the wife of a son for his mother, the wife of one brother in relation to the wife of another brother; also used instead of daughter-in-law, sister-in-law, sister-in-law
14. daughter-in-law- son's wife in relation to father
15. Matchmaker- the father of one of the spouses in relation to the parents of the other
16. Svatya- the mother of one of the spouses in relation to the parents of the other
17. grandfather (grandfather)- the father of the father or mother.
18. Grandmother (grandmother)- the mother of the father or mother.
19. Great Uncle- father's or mother's uncle
20. Great-aunt- mother's or father's aunt
21. Grandson, granddaughter)- son (daughter) of a daughter or son in relation to a grandfather or grandmother. Accordingly, a cousin (granddaughter) is the son (daughter) of a nephew or niece.
22. Great-nephew (niece)- grandson (granddaughter) of a brother or sister.
23. uncle (uncle, uncle)- the brother of the father or mother, the husband of the aunt.
24. Aunt (aunt, aunt)- the sister of the father or mother in relation to the nephews. Uncle's wife in relation to his nephews.
25. Nephew niece)- son (daughter) of a brother or sister (relatives, cousins, second cousins). Accordingly, the child of a cousin (sister) is a cousin, a second cousin (sister) is a second cousin.
26. One womb (brother, sister)- having a common mother.
27. Half-blooded (brother, sister) having a common father but different mothers.
28. Consolidated (brother, sister)- being a brother (sister) by stepfather or stepmother.
29. Cousin- the son of a native uncle or native aunt.
30. Cousin- the daughter of a native uncle or native aunt.
31. Second cousin- the son of a great-uncle or great-aunt.
32. Second cousin- the daughter of a great-uncle or great-aunt.
33. Kum, kuma- godfather and mother in relation to the parents of the godson and to each other.
34. Stepfather- mother's husband in relation to her children from another marriage, stepfather.
35. Stepmother- father's wife in relation to his children from another marriage, stepmother.
36. Stepson- a non-native son of one of the spouses, who is related to the other spouse.
37. Stepdaughter- a step-daughter of one of the spouses, coming native to the other spouse.
38. Adoptive father (mother)- adopting, adopting someone.
39. Adopted son (daughter)- adopted, adopted by someone.
40. Adoptive son-in-law (primak)- son-in-law adopted into the wife's family, living in the wife's house.
41. Widower A man whose wife has died.
42. Widow A woman whose husband has died.
43. twin cities- brothers, mostly cousins, friends who happened to help each other out in difficult times.

Families aren't as big now as they used to be. It is enough to know who the grandchildren, nephews, grandparents, and, well, cousins ​​are. And everyone else is just called relatives. But unlike other languages, Russian is not greedy; it has its own name for everyone. It’s not easy to figure out who’s relative to whom, and if the relatives of one of the spouses have also been added, then it will already 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 starters, it’s worth figuring out who is who and who is in your family. There are several degrees of kinship, they count from the first to the sixth, because then the connections become too distant. So, in descending order:

1. Father - son / daughter, mother - son / daughter.
2. Grandfather / grandmother - grandchildren.
3. Great-grandfather / great-grandmother - great-grandchildren, uncles / aunts - nephews.
4. Cousins/brothers, cousins ​​grandma/grandfather - great nephews/nieces.
5. Great Uncles/Aunts - great nephews/nieces.
6. Second cousins ​​and brothers.

Uncles / aunts are called brothers / sisters of the mother or father, as well as their spouses, but wives and husbands, of course, are no longer blood relatives. There is also the concept of great and small uncles / aunts. The first was the sister and brother of the grandfather / grandmother, and the second - the father / mother. Now they are simply called great aunts/grandparents and great uncles/aunts.

It's just that nephews are the children of brothers / sisters, great-nephews, respectively, their grandchildren. But grandchildren are also called any second cousins. Cousins ​​and sisters today are often called cousins ​​and cousins ​​in the Western manner, and their old Russian names - sister and brother - have completely forgotten. Although the latter is in use 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 you can involve everyone in organizing the celebration, even people of the sixth degree of kinship, if you, of course, are familiar with them.

The rite of baptism 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 a new relative, and what are the names of the relatives who came to the family in this case, we all know well - godfather and mother, between themselves and in relation to the child's natural parents, they are considered godmother and godfather. The godson and goddaughter, respectively, the girl and the boy whom they baptized. Further, the word godfather (godmother) is added to all relatives on this side. But cross brothers or sisters have a different meaning. This is the name of the people who themselves exchanged body crosses. In addition to godparents, there may also be imprisoned parents. This is the name of those who replace their father and mother at the wedding ceremony.

Not related, but close

There are cases when people who are not related by blood become a family, for example, when a man and a woman marry, having children from previous marriages, or spouses adopt a child. In this case, family members will be called:

• stepmother - stepmother,
• stepfather - stepfather,
• stepson - step-son,
• stepdaughter - stepdaughter,
• named son - adopted,
• named daughter - adopted,
• named mother and father are adoptive parents,
• stepbrothers and sisters - native and non-native children among themselves.

Also, non-native, but close people can be attributed to people whose names these days can be found more often in films and books than in reality:

• dairy mother - a woman who nursed a non-native child in relation to him,
• milk brother or sister - non-native children, fed by one woman,
• uncle, mother - a man or woman who looks after the child and raises him, today better known as nannies and nannies.

Kinship by property or who is who after the wedding

As soon as the young officially became husband and wife, the number of family ties of each of them multiplied by two. And it would be nice to know what the relatives you just acquired are called, because in many families it is still customary to address each other according to a long-established tradition. Let's figure out who is who and who is 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. Among themselves, fathers are matchmakers, and mothers are matchmakers. And they called them that because it was with their participation that the ceremony of matchmaking of the bride 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 Russian there is a special word for a husband who has settled with his wife's parents - primak. Previously, this was not accepted, apparently, therefore, popular rumor singled out such husbands.

Young brothers and sisters with their 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 brother-in-law and sister-in-law. Speakers of the Eastern European dialect also call the brothers on both sides Schwagers.

As for the wives of the brothers, their names and who they are to each other, the Russian language did not skimp on the names. There are more of them than for any other relatives - mothers-in-law, in-laws, and in some regions, like the husband's sister, they are called sister-in-law. Accordingly, the brothers' wives are also called in relation to each other.

Who is my husband's sister's husband? This question often arises in the newly-made wife. In addition to establishing family life, she now has to build contacts with her husband's relatives, including his sister and her family. Let's see who is who in this family tree.

Who is related to me?

Before answering this question, it does not hurt to find out what types of kinship generally exist. In total there are 3 main groups with the following names: consanguinity, marriage relationship (property) and close unrelated relationships.

The system of consanguinity includes the following representatives of the family organization: grandfathers, grandmothers, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, nephews, nieces, great-grandfathers, great-grandmothers, ancestors. And also the founder of the genus, if known, called the ancestor.

The marriage kinship group (property) is formed by the following relatives of the husband and wife: brother-in-law, sister-in-law, matchmaker, matchmaker, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, father-in-law, mother-in-law, brother-in-law, father-in-law and mother-in-law.

The last system of relationships is formed by godparents, adopted children, adopted children, stepchildren, stepdaughters, stepfathers, stepmothers, named fathers and mothers.

Determination of the degree of relationship

Modern people do not always know the degree of their relationship, when this is not necessary. Whereas it is always useful to know in order to "orient" in your own, especially if they are extensive.

As a conclusion, I would like to add that, by and large, it does not matter at all who is related to whom. After all, the main thing is good, if not too strong, but equal and respectful relations between relatives of the new family on both sides.

As for definitions, they are almost never used in modern society. This was accepted for previous generations, but today, due to frequent divorces and a freer style of relationships, the use of this terminology in everyday life is completely optional.

However, it is always interesting to know: who is my husband's sister's husband, as well as other members of the kinship of a peculiar kind ...