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tentaiiia, An.) There is no snch distinction in tiie W. dial. 

 (6) A danghter is the bratl (nofine, An.) of a man and the 

 yahiit'i (trntama, An.) of a woman. No distinction is made 

 in the cliihl of the woman. No such distinction in W. dial. 

 (5.) A parent, father or mother, addresses liis male or female 

 cliild as netik (narik, Kw. ; tukutariki, An.) (See Son, 

 Daughter, Cousins.) 



5. Cousins. 



Are either (a) sacred, nevin (hnsband and wife's hrother), 

 neowvn (wife and the husband's sister). Such jiersons are 

 sacred to one another. For example, A is the husband, B 

 the wife, C the wife's brother. In the presence of C lioth A 

 and B must be modest in dress, speech, and behavioin'. 



(h.) Marriageable Cousins. — Sisters' children do not marry 

 one another ; they are coimted brothers and sisters. Children 

 of two brothers do not marry, they are brothers and sisters. 

 But the children of a man can marry the children of his 

 sister. 



6. Daughter. 



For the terms see under Child. A man calls his own 

 oirls and the g-irls of his brother his daug-hters. A woman 

 calls all her own girls and the girls of her sister her 

 daughters. The man and woman are in turn called father 

 and mother. 



7. Daughter-in-Law. 



(a.) A man's daughters-in-law are his nieces who are 

 daughters of his sisters or cousin-sisters, or wife's brother — 

 ra'-niau anien (same term for sons-in-law, kunkanien, Kw. ; 



noraimutu — An). They can become the wives of 



his sons. 



(b.) A woman's daughters-in-law are the daughters of her 

 brother or husband's sister — nau'- wciti (brasini, Kw. ; 

 nosoatasore (An). But the same term is used for the 

 nephews also. 



8. Father. 



(1.) Tata (tara, Kw. ; tata. An.) is the term a man or a 

 woman uses when speaking of his father. (2.) Timin (rimini, 

 Kw. ; tamana, An.) is used when a man s])eaks of the father 

 of another person. Same term is used by women. (3.) A 

 man's father, his father's brothers, and his father's cousin- 

 brother's and the husbands of his mother's sisters, are his 

 fathers. The same with the woman, 



