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"Matrilineal" means kinship is passed down through the maternal line. [1] The Akans of Ghana, West Africa, are Matrilineal. Akans are the largest ethnic group in Ghana. They are made of the Akyems or Akims, Asantes, Fantis, Akuapims, Kwahus, Denkyiras, Bonos, Akwamus, Krachis, etc.
Tolkien almost never borrowed words directly from real languages into Quenya. The major exception is the name Earendel/Eärendil, which he found in an Old English poem by Cynewulf. [11] Yet the Finnish influence extended sometimes also to the vocabulary. A few Quenya words, such as tul-"come" and anta-"give", clearly have a Finnish origin.
Kinship terminology is the system used in languages to refer to the persons to whom an individual is related through kinship.Different societies classify kinship relations differently and therefore use different systems of kinship terminology; for example, some languages distinguish between consanguine and affinal uncles (i.e. the brothers of one's parents and the husbands of the sisters of ...
Fictive kinship (less often, fictional kinship [1] [2]) is a term used by anthropologists and ethnographers to describe forms of kinship or social ties that are based on neither consanguineal (blood ties) nor affinal ("by marriage") ties. It contrasts with true kinship ties.
Patrilineality, also known as the male line, the spear side [1] or agnatic kinship, is a common kinship system in which an individual's family membership derives from and is recorded through their father's lineage. It generally involves the inheritance of property, rights, names, or titles by persons related through male kin.
Kinship terminology is a component of kinship systems, along with descent and rules of marriage. Pages in category "Kinship terminology" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
Anishinaabe Toodaims: is the social fabric context for politics, kinship, and identity of the Anishinawbeg peoples. The men established "a framework of social organization to give them strength and order" [ 2 ] in which each totem represents a core branch of knowledge and responsibility essential to society.
None of the Irish and Scottish Gaelic terms for kinship groups is cognate to English clan; Scottish Gaelic clann means "children": fine [ˈfʲɪnʲə] means (English) "clan" teaghlach means "family" in the sense of the nuclear family, or can include more distant relatives living in the same house