lewa/book/src/05_lexicon/family.md

Family Words

Family words are a huge part of a language because it encodes a lot about the culture behind that language. L'ewa isn't really intended to have much of a culture behind it, but the one place I want to take a cultural stance is here. The major kinship word is kirta, or "is an infinite slice of an even greater infinite". This is one of the few literal words in L'ewa that is defined using a metaphor, as there is really no good analog for this in English.

There are also words for other major family terms in English:

L'ewa	Definition
brota	is the/a brother of
sistu	is the/a sister of
mamta	is the/a mother of
patfu	is the/a father of
grafa	is the/a grandfather of
grama	is the/a grandmother of
wanto	is the/a aunt of
tunke	is the/a uncle of

Cousins are all called brother/sister. None of these words are inherently gendered and brota can refer to a female or nonbinary person. The words are separate because I feel it flows better, for now at least.