Kinship terminology
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, March 28, 1999, 5:13 |
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On Sat, 27 Mar 1999 17:30:39 +0100, Boudewijn Rempt
<bsarempt@...> wrote:
>I noticed I didn't have the difference between niece/nephew
>and cousin - probably since Dutch doesn't have that difference
>either. I'm getting curious for other people's kinship terminology -
>has anybody else worked on that area?
Olaetyan has "koroso" for "cousin" and "sitazzo" for "niece or nephew".
One of the Zariva words for "niece or nephew", "tethaliri", is derived =
from
a word for "cousin", "tetha".
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