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Triangular Kinship Terms

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bbolo

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Definitions

#1

na-bbolo you are my spouse/na-kurrng (affine), father of one of us (term is used for either person referring to their father). Also, you are my ngalkurrng ‘MMBD’, my father or your father. Reciprocal term = na-bbolo

This term needs checking because the reciprocal is the same term but may not necessarily refer to the same person. If a woman talking to her husband (or sister’s husband) refers to ‘na-bbolo’ i.e. the woman’s father, the BIL replies with the same term in relation to the referent. But could not this term then also refer to the man’s father who is the woman’s father-in-law?

#2

na-bbolo you are my spouse/na-kurrng (affine), father of one of us (term is used for either person referring to their father). Also, you are my ngalkurrng ‘MMBD’, my father or your father. Reciprocal term = na-bbolo

This term needs checking because the reciprocal is the same term but may not necessarily refer to the same person. If a woman talking to her husband (or sister’s husband) refers to ‘na-bbolo’ i.e. the woman’s father, the BIL replies with the same term in relation to the referent. But could not this term then also refer to the man’s father who is the woman’s father-in-law?

#3

na-bbolo you are my spouse/na-kurrng (affine), father of one of us (term is used for either person referring to their father). Also, you are my ngalkurrng ‘MMBD’, my father or your father. Reciprocal term = na-bbolo

This term needs checking because the reciprocal is the same term but may not necessarily refer to the same person. If a woman talking to her husband (or sister’s husband) refers to ‘na-bbolo’ i.e. the woman’s father, the BIL replies with the same term in relation to the referent. But could not this term then also refer to the man’s father who is the woman’s father-in-law?

#4

na-bbolo you are my spouse/na-kurrng (affine), father of one of us (term is used for either person referring to their father). Also, you are my ngalkurrng ‘MMBD’, my father or your father. Reciprocal term = na-bbolo

This term needs checking because the reciprocal is the same term but may not necessarily refer to the same person. If a woman talking to her husband (or sister’s husband) refers to ‘na-bbolo’ i.e. the woman’s father, the BIL replies with the same term in relation to the referent. But could not this term then also refer to the man’s father who is the woman’s father-in-law?

#5

na-bbolo you are my spouse/na-kurrng (affine), father of one of us (term is used for either person referring to their father). Also, you are my ngalkurrng ‘MMBD’, my father or your father. Reciprocal term = na-bbolo

This term needs checking because the reciprocal is the same term but may not necessarily refer to the same person. If a woman talking to her husband (or sister’s husband) refers to ‘na-bbolo’ i.e. the woman’s father, the BIL replies with the same term in relation to the referent. But could not this term then also refer to the man’s father who is the woman’s father-in-law?

#6

na-bbolo you are my spouse/na-kurrng (affine), father of one of us (term is used for either person referring to their father). Also, you are my ngalkurrng ‘MMBD’, my father or your father. Reciprocal term = na-bbolo

This term needs checking because the reciprocal is the same term but may not necessarily refer to the same person. If a woman talking to her husband (or sister’s husband) refers to ‘na-bbolo’ i.e. the woman’s father, the BIL replies with the same term in relation to the referent. But could not this term then also refer to the man’s father who is the woman’s father-in-law?

#7

na-bbolo you are my spouse/na-kurrng (affine), father of one of us (term is used for either person referring to their father). Also, you are my ngalkurrng ‘MMBD’, my father or your father. Reciprocal term = na-bbolo

This term needs checking because the reciprocal is the same term but may not necessarily refer to the same person. If a woman talking to her husband (or sister’s husband) refers to ‘na-bbolo’ i.e. the woman’s father, the BIL replies with the same term in relation to the referent. But could not this term then also refer to the man’s father who is the woman’s father-in-law?

#8

na-bbolo you are my spouse/na-kurrng (affine), father of one of us (term is used for either person referring to their father). Also, you are my ngalkurrng ‘MMBD’, my father or your father. Reciprocal term = na-bbolo

This term needs checking because the reciprocal is the same term but may not necessarily refer to the same person. If a woman talking to her husband (or sister’s husband) refers to ‘na-bbolo’ i.e. the woman’s father, the BIL replies with the same term in relation to the referent. But could not this term then also refer to the man’s father who is the woman’s father-in-law?