Family words in English

Words for family members and other relatives in English, a West Germanic language spoken in many countries.

	English
family	family, folks
parents	parents, mum and dad, mother and father, mater and pater, the parental units
father	father, pater (frm), dad, daddy, da, pa, papa, pop(s)
mother	mother, mater (frm), mum, mummy, mam, mammy, mom, mommy, ma, mama
children	children, offspring, kids, sprogs, rug-rats, ankle biters, little ones
son	son
daughter	daughter
husband	husband, hubby, old man, other half, better half
wife	wife, other half, better half, old lady, her indoors, missus, trouble (and strife)
brother	brother, bro
sister	sister, sis
uncle	uncle
aunt	aunt, auntie
cousin	cousin
nephew	nephew
niece	niece
grandparents	grandparents
grandfather	grandfather, grandpa, granddad, granddaddy, grandpapppy, gramps
grandmother	grandmother, grandma, granny, gran, nan, nana, gramms
grandchildren	grandchildren, grandkids
grandson	grandson
granddaughter	granddaugther
father-in-law	father-in-law
mother-in-law	mother-in-law
brother-in-law	brother-in-law
sister-in-law	sister-in-law

Notes

There are many words for some family members, particularly parents and grandparents. Some may only be used in one family, some are borrowed from other languages. There may be different words from a father's parents and a mother's parents in some families.

Trouble (and strife) is Cockney rhyming slang for wife.

Links

Family words in English languages
https://7esl.com/family-members-vocabulary-tree/

Family words in Germanic languages

Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, German, Icelandic, Norwegian, Scots, Swedish, Yiddish

Family words in other languages

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