The Ukrainian language amazes with its depth, historicity and richness of family terminology. It contains words that help more accurately describe family ties.

The word sonovets means the son of a brother, that is, a fraternal nephew. This allows you to clearly indicate through whom exactly the relationship passes.

In modern language we more often use the word nephew, which is universal and simply means the child of a brother or sister. But in the Ukrainian tradition there was a division:.

In the midst of a heavy battle, the great Hetman brought the news that the Reitar commander Dengof, having died in battle, that the resentment of the young Zholkevsky - Sin Yan and the Synovets, beaten by the Turks, ended up dead (Ivan Le).

The word " Dictionaries also give an interpretation of the lexeme in this meaning.

- Chi merchant, chi merchant, Chi merchant sinovets? (in thought) Marusya gave birth to a son of a son. (B. Grіnchenko) Today the word “synovets” is heard less frequently; it is more typical for dialects, fiction or texts that retain archaic vocabulary. However, this does not make it any less important: such words remind us of the depth of cultural memory and centuries-old traditions of Ukrainian speech.