Talk:grandchild

I just read Wiktionary:Beer_parlour_archive/January-March_06#WiktionaryZ_blog about grandchild, grandson and granddaugther. This entry now is completely wrong. The four defentions all define either grandson or granddaughter. From 9 of the translations only 3 relate to the child the others to grandson or granddaugter. This should all be changed. I could have a try, but I will not because I wsaw the discussion on the archive mentioned above, especially You did not include as part of the definitions: "the child of someone's child". This is probably an oversight. & Yes and no, I didn't want to change the definitions since the translations to be checked refered to the numbers
The defenitions for grandchild should read

1. a child of someone's child
2. a child of someone's son
3. a child of someone's daughter

Likewise the defintions of granddaughter should be

1. a daughter of someone's child
2. a daughter of someone's son
3. a daughter of someone's daughter

HenkvD 19:09, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

After reading the post, I can't see where you got that impression. The first definition ("child of a child") accurately encompasses meanings 2 and 3. They *could* be subsenses, but really they're just redundant (if someone doesn't understand that child means son or daughter they look that up). As noted in the link above one could actually divide grandchild again into "daughter of ..." and "son of " pairs making 4 total subsenses. Instead of subsenses, let's list granddaughter and grandson as hyponyms (though I wish the word weren't so "academic"). Languages that distinguish between either gender of grandchild (or grandchild's parents) should note that in the translations line. We don't format our *definitions* based on concerns solely from other languages (there'd be too many, should we break the definition down again by "elder"/"younger" like they do in many asian languages?). --Bequw → ¢ • τ 20:58, 19 April 2008 (UTC)