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What (who) is descendant$20520$ - definition

LANGUAGE CONSIDERED AS DERIVED FROM ANOTHER (PARENT)

Descendant language; Daughter languages; Descendant languages

Lineal descendant

BLOOD RELATIVE IN THE DIRECT LINE OF DESCENT

Collateral descendant; Lineal descendants; Lineal descendancy; Lineal descent; Collateral relative

A lineal descendant, in legal usage, is a blood relative in the direct line of descent – the children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc. of a person.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lineal_descendant

collateral descendant

BLOOD RELATIVE IN THE DIRECT LINE OF DESCENT

Collateral descendant; Lineal descendants; Lineal descendancy; Lineal descent; Collateral relative

n. a relative descended from a brother or sister of an ancestor, and thus a cousin, niece, nephew, aunt or uncle. See also: descent and distribution

descended

WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE

Descendants; Descendent; Decendant; Posterity; Descendants (disambiguation); Descendant (disambiguation); The Descendants (disambiguation); The Descendants (film); Descendants (film); Descended; Descendents (disambiguation); Descendent (disambiguation)

1.

A person who is descended from someone who lived a long time ago is directly related to them.

She told us she was descended from some Scottish Lord.

ADJ: v-link ADJ from n

2.

An animal that is descended from another sort of animal has developed from the original sort.

ADJ: v-link ADJ from n

Wikipedia

Daughter language

In historical linguistics, a daughter language, also known as descendant language, is a language descended from another language, its mother language, through a process of genetic descent. If more than one language has developed from the same proto-language, or 'mother language', those languages are said to be sister languages, members of the same language family. These concepts are linked to the tree model of language evolution, in which the relationships between languages are compared with those between members of a family tree. This model captures the diversification of languages from a common source.

Strictly speaking, the metaphor of the mother-daughter relationship can lead to a misconceptualization of language history, as daughter languages are direct continuations of the mother language, which have become distinct, principally by a process of gradual change; the languages are not separate entities "born" to a parent who eventually dies.

Mother languages do not "die", they become their daughter languages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daughter language