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He has lost a son, his other son is a nailgun accident away from licking doorknobs ( "No," said Animala, "He's a hangnail away from it."), and from what I hear, his daughter is a complete spaz who goes through cars at a phenomenal rate ...

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  1. noun One's male child.
  2. noun A male descendant.
  3. noun A man considered as if in a relationship of child to parent: a son of the soil.
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  1. Middle English, from Old English sunu; see seuə-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also sonne; from Middle English sone, sune, soun, sun, from Anglo-Saxon sunu = Old Saxon sunu = OFries. sunu, sune, son = Middle Dutch sone, Dutch zoon = Middle Low German sone, Low German sone, son = Old High German sunu, sun, Middle High German sun, German sohn = Icelandic sunr, sonr = Swedish son = Danish sön = Gothic (Moesogothic) sunus = Old Bulgarian synŭ = Russian suinŭ, synŭ = Polish Bohemian syn = Lithuanian sūnus = Sanskrit sūnu = Zend hunu, son (also in Sanskrit rarely as feminine, daughter); literally ‘one begotten,’ with formative -nu (cf. Sanskrit suta, son, sutā, daughter, with past participle formative -ta, and Greek νἱός, dial. υἱύς, οὑιός, son, with formative -yu (?), also poetical ι\νις, son, daughter), from √ su, beget, Sanskrit √ sū, su, beget, bear, bring forth. To the same root are referred sow swine, etc.
 

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