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Word Stem

kiwalak

Etymology

na- male noun class prefix plus possibly ke 'your' balak 'poison cousin/-kurrng'

Definitions

#1

ngal-kiwalak you are my kangkinj ‘ZC’, my skewed FZ (FZD>FZ), your mother-in-law (classificatory, not actual).

How covert is the centricity? Not very. If the term encodes the term balak, it is reasonably overt, but not as overt as saying ‘ngal-balak ke’ or some such term.

#2

ngal-kiwalak you are my mawah ‘FF’, my D, your ngal-kurrng ‘SSD’.

How covert is the centricity? Not very. If the term encodes the term balak, it is reasonably overt, but not as overt as saying ‘ngal-balak ke’ or some such term.

#3

ngal-kiwalak you are my MM, my FZ, your BD (also possible FZ or mother-in-law)

How covert is the centricity? Not very. If the term encodes the term balak, it is reasonably overt, but not as overt as saying ‘ngal-balak ke’ or some such term.

#4

ngal-kiwalak you are my MM, my FZ, your FZ

How covert is the centricity? Not very. If the term encodes the term balak, it is reasonably overt, but not as overt as saying ‘ngal-balak ke’ or some such term.

#5

ngal-kiwalak you are my MM, my skewed FZ (FZD/MBD>FZ), your cross-cousin or MMBDD

#6

ngal-kiwalak you are my MMB, my FZ, your ngal-kurrng ‘mother-in-law’.

#7

ngal-kiwalak you are my ZDS, my kanjok ‘cross cousin’, your FM

#8

ngal-kiwalak you are my yB (male propositus), our skewed berlu 'FZ' (nganemodjarrkdorrinj FZD>FZ).