HOLMES ANNIVERSARY VOLUME 



a simpler term actually existed. Inasmuch as the relationship cate- 

 gories of peoples differ, the terms are bound to differ also, and a 

 relation for which one people uses a root word will be covered by 

 another by means of a descriptive term. In attempting to find equiva- 

 lents for the terms used by his own people an investigator may 

 therefore obtain and transmit a false impression of the ideas regarding 

 relationship of the people under consideration. For this reason we can- 

 not in the present instance be perfectly sure of the correctness of the 

 data on which we have to depend, yet it must be remembered that 

 Pareja lived among the Florida Indians for many years and made a 

 close study of their language; and it must also be kept in mind that 

 for use in the confessional accurate information regarding relation- 

 ship was of exceptional importance, so that on the whole I think 

 we may feel that we have a fairly accurate record of the terminology 

 employed. 



Following is a list of the terms arranged under stem words: 



Isa. This is the root word for "mother", isona, my mother; 

 isaya, your mother. Mother's sister is isale (isalena, my maternal 

 aunt), the derivation of which from isa is obvious. It is probable, 

 from analogy with other languages, that -le is a diminutive ending, 

 but of that I am not certain. If the maternal aunt was older than the 

 mother she was called isamiso; if younger, isa quianima. 



Iquine. This name with the appropriate pronominal suffixes (iqui- 

 nena, she who gave me milk; iquineye, she who gave thee milk) was 

 applied to the mother after her death. 



Iti; the root word for "father", itina, my father; itaye, thy father. 

 The name for the paternal uncle was compounded from this by suffix- 

 ing -le (itele) as in the case of the maternal aunt. And in an analogous 

 manner itemiso was used to designate the paternal uncle older than 

 the father, and itequiani the paternal uncle younger than the father. 



Siqinona or sisiqisama, "the one who begot me", is the name by 

 which the father was called after his death. 



Naribuana, "my old man"; a name given to the paternal uncle 

 after his death. 



Neba; the stem word for the maternal uncle; nebena, my maternal 

 uncle. Nebua nebemima signifies my uncle's uncle, and nebapatani, 

 my uncle's wife. 



Nibe; the equivalent for the paternal aunt; nibina, my paternal 

 aunt. The resemblance between this word and the preceding is 

 striking, and there may have been a genetic connection between them, 

 but in Pareja's time, at least, there was an actual distinction. 



Hue sipire, hue asire; a name given to the second stepfather. 



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