Bininj Kunwok
Triangular Kinship Terms

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Word Stem

kokok ngarduk

Etymology

bipartite construction, ordinary kin term kokok 'eB' with first person possessive pronoun in postposition

Definitions

#1

kokok ngarduk, you are my father, my elder brother, your son.

Centricity principle of parent and child as speech participants, parent uses tucentric coding and child uses egocentric.

#2

kokok ngarduk, you are my M, my elder brother, your son.

#3

kokok ngarduk you are my MB, my elder brother, your sister's son.