OF THE HUMAN FAMILY. 



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the substitution of grandson and granddaugJder in their places in the lineal line. 

 It is not probable that it will be changed as much as this within the same period 

 of time in the future. 



The following diagram exhibits the Erse form :— 



LINEAL LINE. 



Shan vahair mahar Q Slian ahair mahar 



Father's Sidb 

 2° Collateral, FcmaU 



Mohair mo han ahair Q Ahair mo han ahar 

 Mo han vahair Q Mo han ahair 



Mo vahair Q Mo ahair 

 Euo O ^°° 

 O Mo vac 



Mac mic mic driffer mahar O Mac mic mo drifferQ Ineean mo ineean Q Mac mo vio 



Mac mic mic mic driffer mahar O Mac mic mic mo driffer O Ineean mic mo vie Q Mac mic mo i 



Drlffur mahar O 1«* Collateral, Pimale 



I 



Mac driffer mahar O Mo yriffur (J 



Mac mic driffer mahar O Mac mo diifferO 



Fathbu's Sidb. 

 2° Collateral, Hale 

 \st Collateral, Male O ^"^^'^ mahar 



O Mo yrihair O """^ driliar mahar 



I I 



O Mac mo drihar O ''^° ""'"^ drihar mahar 



O Mac mic mo driha O Mac mic mic drihar mahar 



I I 



O Mac mic mic mo drihair O Mac mic mic mic drihar maha 



Mac mic mic mic mic driffer O Mac mic mic mic mo O Ineean mic mic movie Q Mac mic mic mo vie Q Mac mic n 

 mahar driffer ^"^^^ 



O Mac mic mic mic mic driha 

 mahar 



For consanguinei and marriage relatives the Erse and Gaelic have but eight, and 

 these the primary terms.^ By means of these terms, which exhaust the nomencla- 

 ture, all of their kindred, near and remote, are described. The diagram represents 

 the lineal line, male and female, and the first and second collateral lines, male and 

 female. Each relationship is made personal to Ego by the use of the pronoun my 

 in the description of each person. 



In the first collateral the series is as follows : Brother, son of my Irother and 

 son of son of my hrotlier ; the second collateral, brother of my father, son of brotJier 

 of my father, and son of son of brother of my father. In the third collateral the 

 description is modified by the use of shan ahair, " old father," in the place of 

 " father of father," which gives for the series, brotlwr of my old father, son of 

 hrotlier of my old father and son of son of brother of my old father, and so downward 

 as far as the line is followed. The description, as in the Icelandic, commences 

 at the opposite extreme from Ego. In the Table, the Erse, Gaelic and Manx forms 

 will be found fully extended. 



4. Welsh.— li is probable that the Welsh form of describing kindred was origi- 

 nally the same as the present Erse ; but it is now distinguished from it by the 



The term uncle has been naturalized in the Erse dialect in uncail, pronounced Oonchail. 



