grandchild

English

Etymology

From grand- +‎ child

Noun

grandchild (plural grandchildren)

1. 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.

Antonyms

• (with regard to ancestry): grandparent

Hyponyms

• granddaughter
• grandson

Translations

child of someone’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) (tʻoṙ), թոռնիկ (hy) (tʻoṙnik)
• Assamese: নাতি m (nati), নাতিনী f (natini)
• Asturian: nietu (ast) m, ñetu (ast) m, nieta (ast) f, ñeta (ast) f
• Avar: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: biloba (eu)
• Bengali: নাতি (nati) (grandson), নাতনি (natoni) (granddaughter)
• Breton: bugel-bihan 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, 孙 (syun¹)

  Mandarin: 孫子／孙子 (zh) (sūnzi), 孫兒／孙儿 (zh) (sūn'ér), 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
• Esperanto: genepo
• Ewe: tɔgbuiyɔvi n, mamayɔvi n
• Finnish: lapsenlapsi (fi)
• French: petit-enfant (fr) m
• Galician: neto (gl) m
• Georgian: შვილიშვილი (ka) (švilišvili)
• German: 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)
• 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: ,
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• Lao: ຫລານ (lān)
• Latgalian: bārnubārns, unuks
• Latvian: mazbērns
• Lithuanian: vaikaitis, anūkas
• Macedonian: внук m (vnuk), вну́ка f (vnúka)
• Malay:

  Jawi: چوچو

  Rumi: cucu

• Manx: cloan ny clienney f, oe f
• Maori: mokopuna
• 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: please add this translation if you can
• 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)
• 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
• Talysh:

  Asalemi: نوه (nava)

• Taos: mą́kuna
• Thai: หลาน (th) (lǎan)
• Turkish: torun (tr)
• Tuvan: уруунуң уруу (uruunuñ uruu), уруунуң оглу (uruunuñ oglu), оглунуң уруу (oglunuñ uruu), оглунуң оглу (oglunuñ oglu)
• Vietnamese: cháu (vi)
• Volapük: poscil (vo)
• Welsh: ŵyr m, wyrion m pl, wyres f, wyresau f pl
• Yiddish: אייניקל n (eynikl)