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Macedonian kinship

The Macedonian language has one of the more elaborate kinship (сродство, роднинство) systems among European languages. Most words are common to other Slavic languages, though some derive from Turkish. Terminology may differ from place to place; the terms used in the Standard are listed below, dialectical or regional forms are marked [Dial.] and colloquial forms [Coll.].

There are four main types of kinship in the family: biological blood kinship, kinship by law (in-laws), spiritual kinship (such as godparents), and legal kinship through adoption and remarriage. Traditionally, three generations of a family will live together in a home in what anthropologists call a joint family structure (reminiscent of the historical zadruga units), where parents, their son(s), and grandchildren would cohabit in a family home.

Direct descendance and ancestry

Words for relations up to five generations removed—great-great-grandparents and great-great-grandchildren—are in common use. The fourth-generation terms are also used as generics for ancestors and descendants. There is no distinction between the maternal and paternal line.

Macedonian Cyrillic	Transliteration	Relation
чукунвнука	chukunvnuka	great-great-granddaughter
чукунвнук	chukunvnuk	great-great-grandson
правнука	pravnuka	great-granddaughter
правнук	pravnuk	great-grandson
внука	vnuka	granddaughter
внук	vnuk	grandson
ќерка	kjerka	daughter
син	sin	son
мајка	majka	mother
татко	tatko	father
баба	baba	grandmother
дедо	dedo	grandfather
прабаба	prababa	great-grandmother
прадедо	pradedo	great-grandfather
чукунбаба	chukunbaba	great-great-grandmother
чукундедо	chukundedo	great-great-grandfather

Ego's generation

Macedonian does not have separate terms for first cousins, second cousins and so forth, but uses втор братучед (lit. "second cousin"), трет братучед (lit. "third cousin"), etc.

Macedonian Cyrillic	Transliteration	Relation
брат	brat	brother
сестра	sestra	sister
батко, бато	batko, bato	older brother
дада	dada	older sister
братучед	bratuched	male cousin
братучетка	bratuchetka	female cousin

Relatives

Macedonian Cyrillic	Transliteration	Relation
вујко	vujko	uncle (mother's brother)
вујна	vujna	aunt (mother's brother's wife)
стрико, чичко	striko, chichko	uncle (father's brother)
стрина, нина	strina, nina	aunt (father's brother's wife)
тетка	tetka	aunt (father's or mother's sister)
тетин	tetin	uncle (father's or mother's sister's husband)

Step-relatives

Macedonian Cyrillic	Transliteration	Relation
очув	ochuv	stepfather
маќеа	makjea	stepmother
пасинок, пoсинок, пасторок	pasinok, posinok, pastorok	stepson
паштерка	pashterka	stepdaughter
полусестра	polusestra	stepsister
полубрат	polubrat	stepbrother

In-laws

Macedonian Cyrillic	Transliteration	Relation	English translation
свекор	svekor	husband's father	father-in-law
свекрва	svekrva	husband's mother	mother-in-law
тест, дедо	test, dedo	wife's father	father-in-law
тешта, баба	tešta, baba	wife's mother	mother-in-law
зет	zet	daughter's or sister's husband	son-in-law or brother-in-law
снаа	snaa	son's or brother's wife	daughter-in-law or sister-in-law
шура	shura	wife's brother	brother-in-law
шурнајка	shurnajka	wife's brother's wife	sister-in-law
свеска, балдаза	sveska, baldaza	wife's sister	sister-in-law
баџанак		badjanak		wife's sister's husband	co-brother-in-law
девер		dever		husband's brother	brother-in-law
золва		zolva		husband's sister	sister-in-law
јатрва		jatrva		husband's brother's wife	co-sister-in-law
сват		svat		child's spouse's father	co-father-in-law
сваќа		svakja		child's spouse's mother	co-mother-in-law

References

[http://www.mtsp.gov.mk/WBStorage/Files/zakon_semejstvo_osnoven.pdf ЗАКОН ЗА СЕМЕЈСТВОТО] (in Macedonian )
[https://www.jstor.org/pss/202861 ''Family and Kinship in Western Europe: The Problem of the Joint Family Household'' by Robert Wheaton]

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