Re: Kinship terminology
| From: | Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 1, 1999, 7:47 |
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On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Herman Miller wrote:
> One of the Zariva words for "niece or nephew", "tethaliri", is derived from
> a word for "cousin", "tetha".
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What does the suffix <-liri> mean? Is it a diminutive?
When I discovered the lack of words for niece and nephew the first impulse
was to use the words for 'son' and 'daughter' for ego's siblings children, too -
on second thoughts I have complicated the matter and derived them.