- There is now a general term for 'sibling' (tona), and brothers/sisters are effectively referred to as male/female siblings (vaitona/koitona)
- Grandparents are 'two-parents', great-grandparents 'three-parents' and so on: kaivaana 'grandfather', suiliana 'great-grandmother'
- Similarly for grandchildren: kailaita grandchild, suilaikoi great-granddaughter (< laikoi 'female child')
- Aunts/uncles are to sisters/brothers as grandparents are to parents, so an aunt is a 'two-sister' (kaikoitona) and a great-uncle is a 'three-brother' (suivaitona)
- The word touzana means direct lineal relation in either direction - i.e. either ancestor or descendent. These can take the following pre-existing prefixes:
- aku- 'previous': akutouzana 'ancestor'
- kiu- 'subsequent': kiutouzana 'descendent'
- ven- 'immediately previous': ventouzana 'parent'
- in- 'immediately subsequent': intouzana 'offspring' (though the usual way to refer to one's children is still laita 'child')
- Finally, half-siblings are 'parent-siblings', with maternal/paternal half-siblings specified as 'mother-siblings' and 'father-siblings' respectively, e.g. vaakoitona 'paternal half-sister'.
[0] Clearly, coming as I do from a tiny family with little in the way of relations, such things aren't very important to me :)
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