'Progeny' is the other end of the lineage — descendants who proceed forth from a progenitor.
Offspring or descendants of a person, animal, or plant; the young or products of a particular source.
From Old French 'progenie' and Latin 'prōgeniēs' (descendants, offspring, lineage, stock), from 'prōgignere' (to beget forth, to produce), composed of 'prō-' (forth, forward, before) + 'gignere' (to beget, to produce, to give birth). The PIE root is *ǵenh₁- (to give birth, to beget, to produce), the same root that underlies Latin 'genus' (race, kind, family), 'ingenium' (innate talent — 'genius'), 'indigena' (native-born — 'indigenous'), 'gens, gentis' (a clan, a people — 'gentle,' 'gentile,' 'gentle'), Greek 'genos' (γένος, race, family), 'genesis' (γένεσις, origin, birth), 'gonē' (γονή, seed, offspring), Sanskrit 'janas' (people, race), and English 'kin,' 'kind,' and 'king.' The prefix 'prō-' adds the sense of forward movement
In Shakespeare's sonnets, 'progeny' appears in the context of his famous argument that the young man should have children to preserve his beauty: 'From fairest creatures we desire increase, / That thereby beauty's rose might never die.' The word 'progeny' carried not just biological meaning but the moral weight of dynastic continuity — failure to produce progeny was a failure of duty.
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