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person holds one or other of these eight group relationships to 

 everybody else, the particular term of relationship varying, of 

 course, with the paedomatronyms to which the compared parties 

 belong. It is owing to this circumstance of such terms varying 

 with the paedomatronym that the adoption of the name 

 Heteronym has appeared suitable to give expression to them. 

 To show this arrangement the more clearly, the following table 

 has been compiled : 



To learn from this, the particular heteronymic group 

 relationship subsisting between any two people, no matter the 

 tribe or tribes to which they belong, we have only to look along 

 the horizontal line (paedomatronym) for the one person, and 

 down the vertical for the other ; where these intersect we get 

 what is reijuired. In the case of the heteronyms brother and 

 sister, a distinction is sometimes made between those older or 

 younger than the person speaking of them. Certain of the 

 heteronyms may on occasion be supplanted by 



