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Early Hick Lexicon — Kinship Terms

Entries in the Kinship Terms semantic field.

ba /ba/: father (noun) [Kinship Terms]; father (noun) [Kinship Terms]; father (noun) [Kinship Terms]; father (noun) [Kinship Terms]; Proto-Hick *bahu

kethbran /keθ.bran/: kin, extended family (noun) [Kinship Terms, Social Terms]

liba /li.ba/: uncle (paternal) (noun) [Kinship Terms, Person Terms]

limer /li.mer/: younger parent/aunt/uncle (noun) [Kinship Terms, Person Terms]

linai /li.nai/: aunt (maternal) (noun) [Kinship Terms, Person Terms]

lis /lis/: child (noun) — See also: Diminutive Formation, Basic Numbers [Kinship Terms]; Proto-Hick *li-su; From diminutive prefix *li- + *su 'one', lit. 'little one'

mer /mer/: bird (noun) [Animals, Bird Terms]; parent (noun) — Extended meaning through cultural metaphor [Kinship Terms]; Proto-Hick *meru

merlis /mer.lis/: family line, lineage (noun) [Kinship Terms, Social Terms]

nai /nai/: mother (noun) [Kinship Terms]; mother (noun) [Kinship Terms]; mother (noun) [Kinship Terms]; mother (noun) [Kinship Terms]; Proto-Hick *nahi

thir /θir/: air, wind (noun) [Elements]; white (noun) [Colors]; elder, elderly, white-haired (noun) — Extended from 'white' through white hair; productive in age-marked compounds. [Kinship Terms, Age Terms]; Proto-Hick *haru

thirba /θir.ba/: grandfather (noun) [Kinship Terms]

thirlis /θir.lis/: grandchild (noun) [Kinship Terms]; Uses thir- as an age-marked kinship element extended from white hair.

thirmer /θir.mer/: grandparent (noun) [Kinship Terms]; Uses thir- as an age-marked kinship element extended from white hair.

thirnai /θir.nai/: grandmother (noun) [Kinship Terms]

tormer /tor.mer/: ancestor (noun) [Kinship Terms]

tornai /tor.nai/: ancestor (maternal) (noun) [Kinship Terms]

vinok /vi.nok/: baby, infant (noun) [Person Terms, Kinship Terms, Life Stages]; Shows semantic extension from agentive to resultative meaning