Words for family members and other relatives in Scots (Scots Leid), a West Germanic language spoken mainly in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Note: there is no standard way to write Scots, and there are quite a few dialects of Scots, so there are several variations of each word. Not all these words are currently in common use.
Scots | |
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family | faimily, faimly, faimley, femaly, femily, femlie, faimlie |
parents | parentis |
father | faither, faether, fayther, feyther, fether |
mother | mither, midder |
children | childer, bairns, bearns, weans, wanes, weanies |
son | son |
daughter | dochter, dauchter, douchter, da(a)chter, dother, dowter |
husband | man, guidman, gud(e)man, geudman |
wife | wife, wyfe, wifey |
brother | brither, breethir, bridder, breeder, bruther |
sister | sister |
uncle | uncle, unkl |
aunt | aunt, ant, awnt, awnte, antt, ante, aint, aynt father-sister, mither-sister |
cousin | brither-barin (parent's brother's child) sister-barin (parent's sister's child) |
nephew | brither son, sister son |
niece | brither douchter, sister douchter |
grandparents | grandparents |
grandfather | grand(d)a, gran(d)-daddy, grantschir, gran(d)faither, graundfather, grannie, granny, graunie, grandy, granda, grandey |
grandmother | grandmither, grandmidder, grandmammy, grandmamma, gran(d)minnie, grandame, grannam |
grandchildren | gran(d)bairns, grandchilder, grandchildren, grand-weans |
grandson | grandson |
granddaughter | gran(d)-docther |
father-in-law | gud(e)fader, gu(i)dfather, gudfadyr, gudfadir, goodfather |
mother-in-law | gud(e)moder, gu(d)emother,guidmoder, goodmother |
brother-in-law | gud(e)-brither |
sister-in-law | gud(e)sister, guidsister, gudesuster, gudsystyr, goodsister |
son-in-law | gud(e)son(e), guidson, gwdson, gudsonne, goodsonne |
daughter-in-law | gud(e)-dochter, good-dochter, guid(e)-doghter |
Information about Scots | Phrases | Numbers | Time | Family words | Learning materials
Dictionary of the Scots Language / Dictionar o the Scots Leid
https://dsl.ac.uk/
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