Bininj Kunwok
Triangular Kinship Terms

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Word Stem

yi-mawahmeng

Etymology

you-call mawah (FF/SS etc)

Definitions

#1

yi-mawahmeng you are my FZ, my korlonj ‘man’s child/woman’s brother’s child’, your mawah ‘BSC’

#2

yi-mawahmeng you are my child (female ego), my brother’s child, your cross cousin.

Note possible skewing with a cross cousin calling the referent ‘mawah’ FF

#3

yi-mawahmeng you are my father, my korlonj ‘mC’, your mawah ‘SC’.

1.= male
2.= male
3= either male or female