PREFACE
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sister's son is R. It is a simple and easily intelligible nomenclature, and replaces intolerable verbiage in the description of distant kinships. My correspondents used it freely, and none of them spoke of any difficulty in understanding it. Its somewhat babyish sound is soon disregarded.
TABLE IV.-ABBREVIATIONS.
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Males. |
Females. |
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Grandfather, paternal fa fa |
Grandmother, paternal |
fa me me me me fa si me si si | ||||
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„ Father |
maternal me fa |
„ Mother |
maternal | |||
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... |
... fa ... fa bra ... me bro ... bro |
... |
... ... ... ... | |||
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Uncle, paternal |
Aunt, paternal | |||||
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„ maternal |
„ maternal | |||||
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Brother |
... |
Sister |
... | |||
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Son ... Nephew, son |
... ... son |
Daughter ... ... Niece, brother's |
da | |||
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brother's | ||||||
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... |
... bro son si son |
daughter ... ... bro da | ||||
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Nephew, sister's son Male first cousins : |
Niece, sister's daughter Female first cousins i. Dau. of paternal |
si da | ||||
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r. Son of paternal uncle fa bro son | ||||||
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uncle fa bro da | ||||||
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2. Son of maternal |
2. Dau. of maternal |
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uncle me bro son |
uncle me bro da | |||||
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3. Son of paternal |
3. Dau. of paternal |
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aunt fa si son |
aunt fa si da | |||||
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4. Son of maternal |
4. Dau. of maternal |
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aunt me si son |
aunt me si da | |||||
Those relationships that are expressed by different combinations of these letters differ specifically; therefore, in saying, in the next chapter, that each person has " roughly, on the average, one fertile relative in each and every form of specific kinship,"
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