male lineage
- patrilinealTraced through fathers
- bloodlineAncestry through generations
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- surnameHereditary family identifier
- heirOne who receives legacy
firstborn · son · father · grandfather · dynasty · inheritance · primogeniture · clan · tribe · descent · legacy · paternal · genealogy · pedigree · succession · lineage · sire · begat
- patriarchymale dominance, male supremacy, pater familias, patria potestas, male privilege
- genealogyfamily trees, family history, descendants, ancestors, ancestry tracing
- Old TestamentGenesis, Exodus, Deuteronomy, Leviticus, Numbers
gender of descent line
male lineagefemale lineage
Ancestry traced through mothers
matrilineage · maternal lineage · matriline · maternal line · mother's line