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II- — All the sisters of a mother are usually called mothers 

 (Tay;) but in strictness, when older or younger, great and little 

 mothers, as in the former case. So that in like manner, all the 

 sisters of a mother are mothers, and not aunts. 



Ill- — On the contrary, all the brothers of a mother are uncles 

 (Mama,n) to her children, and all the sisters of a father are aunts 

 (Attai) to his children; so that the mother's brothers and father's 

 sisters are the true and the only uncles and aunts recognized under 

 the Dravidian system. 



IV". — There is one term for elder brother, (Annan,) another for 

 younger brother, (Tampi;) one term for elder sister, (Akkill,) 

 and another for younger sister, (Tilngkachchu,) and no term either 

 for brother or sister. These separate terms are not applied to the 

 oldest and youngest specifically; but to each and all who are older 

 or younger than the person speaking. 



V. — All the children of several brothers are brothers and sisters 

 to each other, and all the children of several sisters are brothers 

 and sisters to each other; and they use in each case the respective 

 terms for elder and younger brother and for elder and younger 

 sister, the same as in the case of own brothers and sisters, and as 

 given in the foregoing illustration from the Iroquois system. 



VI. — All the children of brothers on the one hand, and of the 

 brother's sisters on the other, are cousins (Maittunan) to each 

 other, as in the American system. 



VII. — All the sons of a man's sisters are his nephews, (Maru- 

 makan,) and all the daughters of a man's sisters are his nieces, 

 (Marumakal.) So also, all the sons and daughters of a woman's 

 brothers are her nephews and nieces. But whether all the sons 

 and daughters of a man's brothers are called his sons and daugh- 

 ters; and whether all the sons and daughters of a woman's sisters 

 are her sons and daughters, these schedules do not show. It is to 

 be inferred that they are, from the use by these persons of the 

 correlative terms. 



If, in addition to these particulars, the grand-fathers and grand- 

 mother's brothers and sisters are all alike grand-fathers and 

 grand-mothers; if the grand-sons of a man's brothers and sisters 

 are his grand-?ons ; and if the son of a man's female cousin is 

 his nephew, and the son of this nephew is a grand-son, then all 



