Re: kinship terms (was Re: The pitfall of Chinese/Mandarin_

"H. S. Teoh" wrote:
>         `ymai'  "Mother" (colloquial). Literally, carries the effect of
>                 "Mrs. Mother", _`y_ being the feminine proper name prefix.
>         epai'   "Father" (colloquial). Literally, "Mr. Dad", _e_ being the
>                 masculine proper name prefix.
Uatakassi for "mother" is _tinani_.  There is no common word for father,
the concept simply doesn't exist.  If one, for whatever reason, needed
to talk about the male parent, then _nlannani_, literally "co-mother" is
used.  :-)

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