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Ursula Hanly ursula.hanly at anthro.utah.edu
Sat Jan 9 19:02:59 UTC 1999


There are many OC-speaking societies in Melanesia that have separate
kinship terms for 'cross-cousin.'  For example in

Lesu : korup : 'FZD, MBD man speaking
Usen Barok (New Ireland) : gogup ' FZD, MBD'
Dobu : nibana : 'FZD, MBD'
Lau (Fiji) : watchi : 'FZD, MBD man speaking; FZS, MBS woman speaking.

A term for cross-cousin is not reconstructable for Proto-Oceanic but are
there any lower level cognate sets?  Any help gratefully appreciated.

per Hage
Department of Anthropology
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA



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