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  2. Hindustani kinship terms - Wikipedia

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    The kinship terms of Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu) differ from the English system in certain respects. [1] In the Hindustani system, kin terms are based on gender, [2] and the difference between some terms is the degree of respect. [3] Moreover, "In Hindi and Urdu kinship terms there is clear distinction between the blood relations and affinal ...

  3. Kinship terminology - Wikipedia

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    Kinship terminology is the system used in languages to refer to the persons to whom an individual is related through kinship.Different societies classify kinship relations differently and therefore use different systems of kinship terminology; for example, some languages distinguish between consanguine and affinal uncles (i.e. the brothers of one's parents and the husbands of the sisters of ...

  4. Kinship - Wikipedia

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    Here the relation of siblings is expressed as the composition P T P of the parent relation with its inverse. The relation of grandparent is the composition of the parent relation with itself: G = PP. An uncle or aunt is the sibling of a parent, (P T P)P, which can also be interpreted as the child of a grandparent, P T (PP).

  5. Adopted brother and sister discover they are biological ...

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    The siblings are still processing the fact that they are biologically related, but say nothing about their relationship has changed. “I was shaking when I read the results.

  6. Sibling - Wikipedia

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    Adoptive siblings are raised by a person who is the adoptive parent of one and the adoptive or biological parent of the other. Siblings-in-law are the siblings of one's spouse, the spouse of one's sibling, or the spouse of one's spouse's sibling. [14] [15] The spouse of one's spouse's sibling may also be called a co-sibling. [16] [17] Not related:

  7. Consanguinity - Wikipedia

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    Thus, a parent and child pair has a value of r=0.5 (sharing 50% of DNA), siblings have a value of r=0.5, a parent's sibling has r=0.25 (25% of DNA), and first cousins have r=0.125 (12.5% of DNA). These are often expressed in terms of a percentage of shared DNA but can be also popularly referred to as % of genes although that terminology is ...

  8. Superfecundation - Wikipedia

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    Superfecundation is the fertilization of two or more ova from the same cycle by sperm from separate acts of sexual intercourse, which can lead to twin babies from two separate biological fathers. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The term superfecundation is derived from fecund , meaning able to produce offspring.

  9. Sladdbarn - Wikipedia

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    In Swedish, "efterskott" may be used (a double entendre, meaning "arrears", but literally also "after-shot"). [citation needed] In Finland Swedish, there is a term "skrapabulla" (scrape bun, the word comes from the slightly smaller bun that gets created when a baker needs to scrape off the bowl to get enough dough to fill the last cup).