Kinship

Question 1

ŋäṉḏi

Answer 1

mother or mother’s sisters

Question 2

bäpa

Answer 2

father or father’s brother

Question 3

gäthu

Answer 3

It has several meanings: if a man is speaking it may mean son or daughter, it may also mean brother’s son or brother’s daughter.

Question 4

waku

Answer 4

A woman calls her sons and daughters waku. Brothers and sisters of the woman also call her children waku.

Question 5

dhuway

Answer 5

husband or husband’s sister

Question 6

galay

Answer 6

wife or wife’s brother

Question 7

wäwa

Answer 7

elder brother

Question 8

yukuyuku

Answer 8

younger brother or sister

Question 9

yapa

Answer 9

elder sister

Question 10

ŋäpipi

Answer 10

mother’s brother - a very important person in the life of a child

Question 11

märi

Answer 11

mother’s mother and mother’s mother’s brother (loosely translated as grandmother)

Question 12

gutharra

Answer 12

may mean my daughter’s children if a grandmother is speaking; if a brother or a sister of this grandmother is speaking, it may mean sister’s daughter’s children

Question 13

gurruŋ

Answer 13

daughter’s husband or daughter’s husband’s sister

Question 14

mukul rumaru’

Answer 14

wife’s mother

Question 15

märi’mu

Answer 15

father’s father and father’s father’s brothers and sisters (may be loosely translated as grandfather)

Question 16

marratja

Answer 16

may mean son’s children if a man (grandfather) is speaking; if a brother or sister of this grandfather is speaking it may mean brother’s son’s children

Question 17

momu

Answer 17

father’s mother (may be loosely translated as grandmother)

Question 18

ŋäthi

Answer 18

mother’s father (may be loosely translated as grandfather)

Question 19

gaminyarr

Answer 19

daughter’s children is roughly equivalent to grandchildren

Question 20

wärraŋ

Answer 20

dingo (yirritja)

Question 21

mathayalma

Answer 21

dolphin (dhuwa)