Elternschaft

Meaning

1. (feminine) parenthood (state of being parents), parenting (process of raising and educating a child)
2. (collective, feminine, noun) parents (of a school or community as a whole)

Concepts

parenthood

parentage

ancestry

coancestry

granddams

grandsires

containing roe

Synonyms

Abstammung

Mutterschaft

Schwangerschaft

Grossvater

Grossmutter

Translations

سلف

généalogie

grand-parent

parenté

ascendance

parentalité

paternità

ascendenza

genealogia

parentela

nonni

nonne

ouderschap

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɛltɐnʃaft/

Etymology

From Eltern (“parents”) + -schaft (“-ship, -hood”).