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Transactions. — Miscellaneous. 



System op Maori Nomenclatdre, Consanguineous and 



Affinitative— conimweti. 



(i) Tuartta means " second. " Kuia taurua = aecoud grandmother— r.«., great 

 grandmotlier. 



(■'■') Tupuna is a variant form of tipuna. 



C) Tamariki whaktangi in plural, 



0) Tuakana lutro doiiotes iiieuibcrs of elder branch of fnniily, taina tliose of 

 younger brancli, but tlio male speaker would call his female cousins here his 

 tuiihinc, or sisters. The female speaker would term her male cousins tungane, 

 or brothers. 



