Re: Senyecan kinship system
| From: | Jeffrey Jones <jsjonesmiami@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 14, 2004, 21:21 |
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On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 12:02:21 +0200, taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-
conlang@...> wrote:
>The Taruven kinship-system isn't complete yet but so far:
>
(snip)
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>the child of somebody who has the same great great great grandfather as
>ego: kaìrfaìnntatcan (5 syllables btw, nn is syllabic in nnta)
>"great great great grandfather's great great great great grandchild"
>(might be a 'great' too much there :) )
>
For some reason, I'm having trouble following this part.
(snip)
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>t.
The {'Yemls} kinship system is even less complete, but it has a couple of
odd features. The only roots defined so far are:
MOM - mother
FOF - father
A kinship word _must_ be followed by the "possessor". This can be a clitic
pronoun, working just like the object of a verb. The inverse relationship
is formed regularly with the prefix {C}.
CMOM - the offspring of a mother
CFOF - the offspring of a father
Examples:
NrM: MOM jOn. - Norma is John's mother.
jOn: CMOM NrM. - John is Norma's child.
FOF-u: WtQ? - Where's your father?
The various forms can be combined for some additional relationships:
{CMOM MOM jOn} - the offspring of John's mother (i.e. John and his same-
mother siblings)
{MOM CFOF jOn} - the mother of John's children (but not necessarily all of
them. This is not intended to reflect on any actual persons named John who
might belong to a non-'Yemls culture; it's just that "John" is easy to
render in 'Yemls ... and aren't you glad I remembered the quotes).
Jeff