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I mean that instead of saying "grandchild", it explicitly says "the child of her child". It's touched upon briefly in the next part, but to pull from the novel TL:
Hilg-papa did not use the term "grandchild".
That was probably because humans and spirits had a different way of thinking about the concept of family.
Human grandpas and grandmas generally doted on their grandchildren, but spirits were only deeply involved with their own child.
When spirits describe their 'family', it would be that a parent has a single child and a child has a single parent.
When it came to their grandchildren, not only would they not live with them, they would hardly have any interactions with them whatsoever.
That is why, while they may recognize that they were "the child birthed by their child", they wouldn't really think of the child as "their own grandchild".
That was probably because humans and spirits had a different way of thinking about the concept of family.
Human grandpas and grandmas generally doted on their grandchildren, but spirits were only deeply involved with their own child.
When spirits describe their 'family', it would be that a parent has a single child and a child has a single parent.
When it came to their grandchildren, not only would they not live with them, they would hardly have any interactions with them whatsoever.
That is why, while they may recognize that they were "the child birthed by their child", they wouldn't really think of the child as "their own grandchild".
