SWANTON— TIMUCUA RELATIONSHIP 



Nibira. This was applied to the grandmother on either side, and 

 also, it is said, to the stepmother and godmother, though the last was, 

 of course, a Christian usage. The connection of this term with that 

 for father's sister is apparent, and it becomes still more evident when 

 we consider the analogous case presented by the word for grand- 

 father. The same resemblance exists down to the present day in Creek. 

 Other terms founded on nibira were: nibira yache (also isa yache), 

 great-grandmother; nibira-yachemulu, great-great-grandmother. The 

 term nibira was also given to the mother, the maternal aunt, and the 

 paternal aunt after the father's death. 



Yachemulecoco; a term for the great-grandmother on both the 

 father's and the mother's side. 



Itora. This was the term for grandfather, corresponding to nibira, 

 and it was used in an analogous manner for father-in-law and god- 

 father. There is little doubt, especially when we consider the term 

 for grandmother, that this word was based on that for father, iti. 

 Itora naribua, or coesa itora, was great-grandfather, and itora mulu, 

 great-great-grandfather. Itora was also applied by a woman to the 

 husband of her aunt. In a manner analogous to the use of nibira it 

 was given by children to their father, his brothers, and their mother's 

 brothers, after the death of their mother. 



Hiosa; one of the terms used by a man for his elder brother, and for 

 the elder son of his father's brother and his mother's sister; the women 

 of the Timucua tribe (Utina) also used this for their elder brother. 

 Children called each other by this term after the death of either parent. 

 Two chiefs who were brothers or of equal rank were also so called. 



Niha; another term for elder brother, used by men and by Timu- 

 cua women in the same manner as hiosa, also for the son of the father's 

 brother older than self. 



Ano ecoyana; the name which a man gave to his elder brother 

 after the latter's death. 



Yacha. This seems to have been applied originally by a man to 

 his sisters, but in Pareja's time it had come to be used somewhat 

 irregularly, or rather its use had been extended. Yacha miso was the 

 term applied by a man to his elder sister and the elder daughter of 

 the father's brother and the mother's sister. Yacha quianima was the 

 term which a man gave to his younger brother and his younger sister, 

 also to the corresponding cousins; the younger sister was also called 

 amitina. In one place it is said that a woman so called her elder 

 sister, but there seems to be an error in the original text at this point. 

 Yachimale was used for the male and female children of brothers when 

 spoken of collectively; yachimalema, sister and brother. 



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