Kinship roots

As mentioned in the general discussion of Kashaya kinship terms, this is a large set of words that refer to family relationships, or kinship. On this page, the words are arranged according to their meanings.

Here are the words for parents. As noted in the person page, these words sometimes have different roots depending on the possessive prefix. Another possible pronunciation of "my mother" is ʔa·ṭʰénʔ with a /ṭ/ that matches the second and third person forms.

These are the four terms referring to grandparents.

These words refer to the siblings of the parents; notice that the same-sex sibling is distinguished for whether he or she is older or younger than the parent.

Here are one's own siblings.

These are descendents.

These are in-law relations.

These are terms for spouses, as well as friend (which is somewhat similar in form).

See the separate discussion of the meanings and forms the various kinship cases.