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SYSTEMS OF CONSANGUINITY AND AFFINITY" 



nations would probably exhibit all the diversities in the system of the Slavonic na- 

 tions. For this reason the incompleteness referred to, and which is true, to nearly 

 the same extent, of the Bulgarian, is the more to be regretted. The Bohemian form, 

 as it appears in the Table, is nevertheless worthy of a careful examination. 



3. Biihjarkin. — Tavo schedules, of the Bulgarian arc given in the Table. It 

 agrees with the Polish in a part of the first and second collateral lines. When 

 both forms are fuUy investigated, they will doubtless be found in full agreement. 

 The series of the first collateral line, male, is as follows : Brother, nepliew, little 

 grandson, and little great-grandson. In the second collateral is found the same 

 extraordinary series before given in the Polish ; namely, chicha, " paternal uncle ;" 

 otchicJia hrat, "brother through paternal uncle;" otcliicha bratanetz, "nephew 

 through paternal uncle ;" and oichicha vnook, " grandson through paternal uncle." 

 this remarkable classification of kindred, and which is the same in the other 

 branches of these lines, is peculiar to the Slavonic nations within the limits of the 

 Aryan family.^ In the remaining branches of this line the persons, as shown in 

 the Table, are described, Avhich was not to have been expected. It probably indi- 

 cates that both forms are used.^ 



4. Mitsslan. — In some respects the Russian differs from the Polish and Bohemian. 

 The following diagram exhibits these difi'crcnccs, as well as all that is peculiar in 

 the Russian method : — 



LINEAL LINE 



MALE. 

 G G. G. F. O PrapracIjoJ 



l8t Collateral. 

 Male, 

 1. 6 Es" ^O Brat 



4th Collateral, 

 Male, F. S. 



O Trojurodnyi Djailja 

 Tchetverojurodliyi Brat 



Q Dvujurodnyi Brat 



O DTOjurotlnyi rijomjaDuik Q Truj^roiliyi r'jeuijauuik Q Tchetverojurodnyl Pljemjaanik 



O.S. OVuucU O VuQtchatnyi Pljemjannik O Dvojnrodnvi Vnutcbatnyl Q Troinrndnvi VQatcbatnyi Q ^''^hetverojurodayi Vnutchatuyi 



rijenijanuik rijeujiaiiuik Pljemjanuik 



• The fulness of the Bulgarian nomenclature is further shown by the possession of terms not called 

 out by the questions in the Table : as hraletz, " husband's younger brother ;" malina and sestriiza, 

 "husband's younger sister;" nahranenitz, "adopted sou;" uahraneitza, "adopted daughter;" 

 streekovi, " the children of brothers. 



" Mr. Morse, in his letter to the author, remarks : " The only things peculiar which I have noticed 

 are the three following : First, oichicha hi-at, brother from paternal uncle, for father's brother's son, 

 or cousin ; but in eastern Bulgaria widens son is used ; second, vnook is used both for one's grand- 

 son, and for a brother's and sister's grandson ; third, deda is both grandfather and great-uncle. This 

 is the reciprocal of the preceding. If I call my brother's grandson my grandson, it is proper that 

 he should call me grandfather." Elsewhere he states that vnook was used in the twofold sense of 

 grandson and nephew, and that the distinction, in the last use, was sometimes made by prefixing 

 mal = little. 



