Re: Kinship terminology
| From: | Nik <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 14, 2000, 0:24 |
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"H. S. Teoh" wrote:
> Well, as to a generic term for aunt/uncle, couldn't some of the
> Latin/Greek literate among us coin up an appropriate term?
I don't know about Greek, but Latin didn't have a generic for "parent's
brother" vs. "parent's sister", there were different words for "father's
brother", "mother's brother", "father's sister" and "mother's sister"
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