... Word for "Family" ...

[Koontz John E]

On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Lance Foster wrote:
> Also there seem to be different words for 'family'

> 1. Gratogre (really 'relatives' - gra 'to be related/loved'+togre 'together')
> 2. Chuyu (could this be 'household'? fr. Chi 'house' + uyu 'to live in')

Cf. Omaha-Ponca ttiz^u 'household', I think.

> 3. And of course wodi/wori, 'relative/relations'

Cf. OP e=...dhe 'relative' (a causative of e 'the aforesaid').

Unfortunately (?) you can't talk about kinship in Omaha-Ponca without
being able to inflect casuative verbs.

JEK