Bininj Kunwok
Triangular Kinship Terms

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Word Stem

wurd ngarrkuwarre

Etymology

wurd 'child' ngarrku 'our (you and me)' warre 'bad, affine'

Definitions

#1

wurdngarrku you are my husband, my mawah (FF/Z), your makkah (FM/B).

Centricity is a combination of both isosceles and dicentric because ngarrku ‘ours’ indexes the equal relation between speech participants, but the -warre marks only the hearer’s affinal relationship with a makkah-spouse collapsed section.

#2

wurd ngarrkuwarre you are my wife, my makkah, your mawah.