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I guess I’m trying to say it doesn’t need a word to understand those are similar positions on a family tree. We happen to have words for that in English but even if you didn’t I’d think you’d realize these people are related to you in similar ways - I could be wrong and that’s not obvious, I figured it would be but I can’t deny my ignorance of how other cultures think about things and how their languages effects that

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