| (W.S.). } omyako.
Wife’s mother. ongi (Northern Lhotas). |
onno (Southern Lhotas). |
Husband’s father. omo. | Son’s wife (M.S.). omi (Northern Lhotas).
| orrhovo (Southern
| Lhotas).
Husband’s mother. ongi (Northern Lhotas). | Son’s wife (W.S.). oka.
onno (Southern Lhotas). |
Wife’s elder brother. onung. | Sister’s husband (M.S.). onung.
Wife’s younger brother. onung nunghowo. | Sister’s husband (W.S.). orrhang.
Wife’s elder sister. orrhamm eramo. |
Wife’s younger sister. orrhamm nunghowo. |
Husband’s brother. orrhang. | Brother’s wife (M.S.). omi.
Husband’s sister. onung. | Brother’s wife (W.S.). onung.
Wife’s sister’s husband. ozi (if not of |
speaker’s clan). |
oporo or ota (if of |
speaker’s clan). |
Husband’s brother’s wife. ota (if older than |
speaker). |
oka (if younger than |
speaker). |
oyeni (if of same age |
as speaker). |
Son’s wife’s parents omo (m.) and ota or |
(M.S.). oka (f.). |
(W.S.). oporo, oporamo, ota or |
ongo (m.) according |
to age, and onung |
(f.). |
Sister’s daughter’s ota or ongo according
husband (M.S.). to age.
(W.S.). omyako.
Note.—For the sake of clearness only one word for mother (oyo) has been
given in the above list. But in speaking of women born in certain clans
the terms opfu, opfuramo, and opfununghowo are invariably used instead
of oyo, oyoramo, and oyonunghowo, irrespective of what clan their
husbands may belong to. These clans are all the clans of the
Tompyaktserre phratry, and the Ezong clan of the Mipongsandre phratry.
In speaking of women of the Nguli, Kithang, Sempinguli, Sityingonguli,
Shetri and Humtsoi clans the Northern Lhotas use oyo and its
derivatives, while the Southern Lhotas use opfu and its derivatives.
The custom with regard to women of the Yanthang, Moyoyanthang and
Tsangle clans varies in different villages. The Lhotas cannot account
for the existence of two terms for ‘mother,’ nor can they say why a
particular term is used in speaking of women born in a particular clan.
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