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Nihona. This was applied to the elder sister of a woman and is 

 evidently related to niha (see above). 



Poi; the usual term applied by a woman to her brother; poyna 

 misoma, my elder brother, poyna quianima, my younger brother. 



Amita; the name which a man gave to his younger brother and 

 sister, also to the younger child of his father's brother and his mother's 

 sister; amitina, my younger brother or sister. A woman called her 

 younger sister amita oroco; in the Potano and lean dialects the forms 

 were amita chitima and amita chirico. 



Anta. In the Timucua dialect a man used this term for his brother 

 and a woman used it for her sister; antina, my brother (or sister). 



Yubuaribana; the name which a man gave to his younger brother 

 after the latter's death. 



Ama; a male or female child of the father's sister. 



Eqeta, equeta; a male or female child of the father's sister. 



Aruqui; a male or female child of the father's sister. 



Qui; stem of the word used for "child", whether male or female, 

 by men and by men only; quiena, my child; qiena miso, my older 

 child; quyanima, my younger child; quiani cocoma, or yubuacoli, my 

 last or latest child. A man also gave this name to the child of his 

 mother's brother. 



Pacanoqua; the intermediate child, child born between others. 



Yubuacoli; the last child (man or woman speaking). 



Isicora, isinahoma; the very last child (of man or woman). 



Ule; the name given by a woman to her male or female child; 

 ulena, my child; ulena miso, my elder child; ulena pacanoquana, my 

 second child; ulena quianima, my younger child; ulena quianicocoma, 

 my fourth child; ulena yubacoli, ulena usicora, my very last child. 

 This name was also given by a woman to her sister's child and by a 

 stepmother to her stepchild. 



Ano nihanibama; the name given by a woman to her sister's son 

 after his death; ano nihanema, the name given by her to the child of 

 the preceding after his death. 



Aymantanica. This term was also applied to the sister's son after 

 his death; aymantana was a name given to the deceased son of the 

 preceding, and also by both sexes to a deceased near relative dearly 

 beloved; aymanino neletema was applied to a dearly beloved deceased 

 chief by both men and women. 



Chirico. Chirico viro and chirico nia were terms used by either 

 parent in speaking of the son and daughter respectively. 



Ahono. Ahono viro and ahono nia were used like the terms just 

 given, but it is said that they were "more used in the interior" by 



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