Bininj Kunwok
Triangular Kinship Terms

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Word Stem

yaw

Etymology

means 'child'

Definitions

#1

yaw you are my husband, our child.

Note that the term is really slightly egocentric, in that only a matriline can use the term yaw to a descending generation child. Note the reciprocal is tucentric.
Both parents have the same relationship to the child, ‘our child’ but in fact the child of a man and the child of a woman are different relationships.

#2

You are my husband, our child.
Reciprocal term = yi-yawmey