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Etymology [ edit ]
From grand- + child .
grandchild (plural grandchildren )
A child of someone's child .
1912 , Willa Cather , The Bohemian Girl : :...he fell into amazement when he thought of the Herculean labours those fifteen pairs of hands had performed: of the cows they had milked, the butter they had made, the gardens they had planted, the children and grandchildren they had tended, the brooms they had worn out, the mountains of food they had cooked. It made him dizzy.
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child of one’s child
Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
Afrikaans: kleinkind (af) n
Arabic: حَفِيد m ( ḥafīd ) ( grandson ) , حَفِيدَة f ( ḥafīda ) ( granddaughter )
Armenian: թոռ (hy) ( tʿoṙ ) , թոռնիկ (hy) ( tʿoṙnik )
Assamese: নাতি m ( nati ) , নাতিনী f ( natini )
Asturian: nietu (ast) m , ñetu (ast) m , nieta (ast) f , ñeta (ast) f
Avar: васасул вас ( wasasul was ) , ясальул яс ( jasalʲul jas )
Azerbaijani: nəvə (az)
Basque: biloba (eu)
Bengali: নাতি ( nati ) ( grandson ) , নাতনি ( natoni ) ( granddaughter )
Bikol Central: makuapo (bcl)
Breton: bugel-bihan (br) f
Bulgarian: внук (bg) m ( vnuk ) , вну́чка (bg) f ( vnúčka )
Burmese: မြေး (my) ( mre: )
Catalan: nét (ca) m , néta (ca) f
Chechen: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Cantonese: 孫 / 孙 ( syun1 )
Mandarin: 孫子 / 孙子 (zh) ( sūnzi ) , 孫兒 / 孙儿 (zh) ( sūn'ér ) ( grandson ) , 孫女 / 孙女 (zh) ( sūnnǚ ) ( granddaughter )
Cornish: flogh gwynn m , flogh gwydn m
Czech: vnouče (cs) n
Danish: barnebarn (da) n
Dutch: kleinkind (nl) n , kindskind (nl) n
Esperanto: genepo
Ewe: tɔgbuiyɔvi n , mamayɔvi n
Finnish: lapsenlapsi (fi)
French: petit-enfant (fr) m
Galician: neto (gl) m
Georgian: შვილიშვილი (ka) ( švilišvili )
German: Enkel (de) m , Enkelkind (de) n
Greek: εγγόνι (el) n ( engóni )
Ancient: ἔγγονος m ( éngonos )
Hawaiian: moʻopuna
Hebrew: נכד (he) m ( nekhed )
Hindi: नाती (hi) m ( nātī ) , पोता (hi) m ( potā ) , पोती (hi) f ( potī )
Hungarian: unoka (hu)
Icelandic: barnabarn (is) n
Ido: nepoto (io)
Indonesian: cucu (id)
Ingrian: vunukka
Irish: garpháiste m , ó m ( archaic ) , duine garchlainne m , clann clainne f pl
Italian: nipote (it) m or f
Japanese: 孫 (ja) ( まご, mago )
Kalenjin: mjokoret
Khmer: ចៅ (km) ( chav ) , នត្តា (km) ( noattaa )
Korean: 손주 (ko) ( sonju ) , 외손주 ( oesonju )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: nevî (ku) , torin (ku)
Ladino: inyeto , inyeta
Lao: ຫລານ ( lān )
Latgalian: bārnubārns , unuks
Latin: nepos (la) m , neptis (la) f
Latvian: mazbērns
Lithuanian: vaikaitis , anūkas
Lushootseed: ʔibac
Macedonian: внук m ( vnuk ) , вну́ка f ( vnúka )
Malay:
Jawi: چوچو
Rumi: cucu (ms)
Maltese: neputi m , neputija f
Manx: cloan ny clienney f , oe f
Maori: mokopuna
Mbyá Guaraní: amymino
Meru: kajuju
Mongolian: ач (mn) ( ač ) , зээ (mn) ( zee )
Mwali Comorian: mdjuhu class 1 /2
Mwani: njukulu
Navajo: bitsóóké
Ngazidja Comorian: mdjuhu
Northern Ohlone: tsót̄so
Norwegian:
Bokmål: barnebarn (no) n
Nynorsk: barnebarn n
Ossetian: фыртыфырт ( fyrtyfyrt ) , чызджыфырт ( ḱyzǵyfyrt )
Pennsylvania German: Kinnskind n
Persian: نوه (fa) ( nave )
Polish: wnuczę n
Portuguese: neto (pt) m , neta (pt) f
Quechua: willka
Russian: внук (ru) m ( vnuk ) ( grandson ) , вну́чка (ru) f ( vnúčka ) ( granddaughter ) , вну́ки (ru) m pl ( vnúki ) ( grandchildren )
Sanskrit: नपात् (sa) m or f ( napāt )
Scots: oe
Scottish Gaelic: ogha (gd) m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: у̀нуче n
Roman: ùnuče (sh) n
Slovak: vnúča n
Spanish: nieto (es) m
Swahili: mjukuu (sw)
Swedish: barnbarn (sv) n
Tagalog: apo (tl)
Talysh:
Asalemi: نوه ( nava )
Taos: mą́kuna
Tarifit: ayyaw m , tayyawt f
Thai: หลาน (th) ( lǎan )
Turkish: torun (tr)
Tuvan: уруунуң уруу ( uruunuñ uruu ) , уруунуң оглу ( uruunuñ oglu ) , оглунуң уруу ( oglunuñ uruu ) , оглунуң оглу ( oglunuñ oglu )
Ukrainian: внуча́ n ( vnučá ) , онуча́ n ( onučá ) , унуча́ n ( unučá )
Vietnamese: cháu (vi)
Volapük: poscil (vo)
Welsh: ŵyr (cy) m
Yiddish: אייניקל n ( eynikl )