THE DIACHRONIC FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF KINSHIP TERMS: A LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE

Kinship terms constitute one of the most ancient and culturally loaded lexical fields in human language. Their persistence across centuries, combined with continuous semantic and functional change, makes them a valuable object of diachronic linguistic research. This article investigates the formation and historical development of kinship nouns from a diachronic perspective, focusing on how social structure, cultural norms, and linguistic evolution have shaped kinship terminology over time.