[Possible Spam]: [Lexicog] Words for "cousin"

[Julius Becker]

Hey Alexander,

unfortunately, the German terms for "cousin" have their spelling
difficulties :
- the male cousin is called "Cousin" [not "Kousin"]
- the female cousin can be spelled "Cousine" or "Kusine" [not "Kousine"]

FYI: For the female cousin exists also an out-of-date form: "Base". If you
would use it in our days, people would think you're talking of a chemical
base.


Julius Becker
http://koocachoo.de | http://gidoo.de


2006/11/21, Justice, Alexander <ajustice at lmu.edu>:
>
>    Gaelic, colloquially, uses the Gaelic equivalents of the terms you
> listed... as well as a generic term.
>
>
> DANN GEHT DAS LEBEN WEITER, UND NEUE MENSCHEN KOMMEN HINZU:
>
>
>
>  co-ògha (mf) der Vetter (allgemein) mac-brathair-athar (m) (Sohn des
> Bruders des Vaters) Kousin ersten Grades mac-brathair-mathar (m) (Sohn des
> Bruders der Mutter) Kousin ersten Grades nighean-brathair-athar (m) (Schwester
> des Bruders des Vaters) Kousine ersten Grades nighean-brathair-mathar (m) (Schwester
> des Bruders der Mutter) Kousine ersten Grades
>
>
> Alexander Justice
>
> 310.338.5947
> ajustice at lmu.edu
>
>
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>  The English word "cousin" refers to the offspring of a
> parent's sibling. Since the offspring is either male or
> female, a parent is either male or female, and the parent's
> sibling is either male or female, there are (at least) 8
> potential combinations:
> - male offspring of father's brother
> - female offspring of father's brother
> - male offspring of father's sister
> - female offspring of father's sister
> - male offspring of mother's brother
> - female offspring of mother's brother
> - male offspring of mother's sister
> - female offspring of mother's sister
>
> I recently read somewhere that Farsi has 8 distinct forms,
> corresponding to the above. Can anyone confirm whether or
> not this is true? Or, can anyone confirm whether any other
> language has 8 distinct forms? Or even 4 different forms?
>
> Doug Trick, SIL Philippines
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