The original or earlier form of an inherited or borrowed word, affix, or morpheme either from an earlier period in a language's development, from an ancestral language, or from a foreign language.
Meaning as derived and conveyed thereby: The literal meaning of a term according to its origin, which may differ from its usual meaning when the latter relies on idiomatic conventions that are not conveyed by the term alone (that is, they must be known in other ways, such as experience, training, education, or dictionary lookup).
A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.
A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.
A nuclear family: a mother and father who are married and cohabiting and their child or children.
A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.
A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.
An extended family: a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
A collection of sets, especially of subsets of a given set.
A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.
Members of one's family collectively.
Lineage, especially honorable or noble lineage.
Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order.
A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption)
Suitable for children and adults.
Homosexual.