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Dumi dictionary :
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Entry: moktsu
Grammar: n.
Meaning: 1) younger sister's husband; 2) younger sister's husband's younger brother; 3) son-in-law; 4) husband of a younger or elder sibling's daughter; 5) grandson-in-law; 6) husband's younger sister's husband; 7) wife's younger sister's husband.
Derivation: [-tsu, tsuʔu 'child', cf. deltsu ]
dumet-prnum,dumet-pspeech,dumet-meaning,dumet-dercomm,dumet-comments,
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Kiranti etymology :
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Proto-Kiranti: *mak ( ~ -o-,-ǝ-)
Meaning: son-in-law
kiret-prnum,kiret-meaning,kiret-dum,kiret-kul,kiret-yam,
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Kulung dictionary :
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Entry: mɔksi
Grammar: n.
Meaning: 1. son-in-law 2. husband of an elder or younger sibling's daughter
Nepali: juvāiṃ.
kulet-prnum,kulet-pspeech,kulet-meaning,kulet-nepali,
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Yamphu dictionary :
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Entry: maksa
Grammar: n.
Meaning: 1) son-in-law; 2) husband of a younger sister.
yamet-prnum,yamet-pspeech,yamet-meaning,
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *māk
Meaning: son-in-law
Tibetan: mag, dmag son-in-law.
Burmese: sa-mak son-in-law, LB *smakx.
Kachin: dǝmaʔ3 son-in-law.
Lushai: māk-pa a sister's or daughter's husband (LS), KC *māk.
Lepcha: myók a bridegroom, a son-in-law
Comments: PG *maCL younger sister's husband; Thankur mak-cinaw two clans closely related due to a number of marriages; Pwo, Sgaw maʔ son-in-law; Miri mak-bo; Dhimal hma-wa;. Sh. 38, 409; Ben. 71, 136; Mat 201.
stibet-prnum,stibet-meaning,stibet-tib,stibet-burm,stibet-kach,stibet-lush,stibet-lepcha,stibet-kir,stibet-comments,
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Sino-Caucasian etymology :
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Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *mV́xkwA
Meaning: a k. of relative
Comments and references : HGC 27. sccet-meaning,sccet-prnum,sccet-cauc,sccet-stib,sccet-yen,sccet-notes,
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North Caucasian etymology :
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Proto-North Caucasian: *mVχ_wA
Meaning: fiancé, son-in-law
Notes: The root is well preserved in WC, but lost in most EC languages (except Lak. and Udi). Nevertheless, its NC antiquity seems quite probable.
caucet-prnum,caucet-meaning,caucet-lak,caucet-lezg,caucet-abad,caucet-comment,
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Lak etymology :
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Lak root: muhi
Meaning: seeking hand in marriage (n.)
Lak form: muhi
laket-prnum,laket-meaning,laket-lak,
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Lezghian etymology :
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Proto-Lezghian: *mVχ:ʷ- ( ~ -qʷ-)
Meaning: son-in-law
Udi: muIquI
Comment: Attested only in Udi, but having probable external parallels.
lezget-prnum,lezget-meaning,lezget-udi,lezget-comment,
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Abkhaz-Adyghe etymology :
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Proto-West-Caucasian: *maχʷǝ
Meaning: son-in-law
Abkhaz: á-maħʷ
Abaza: mħʷǝ
Adyghe: māχʷʎa
Kabardian: māʎχa
Ubykh: mǝχǝ́
Comments: PAT *maħʷǝ; PAK *maχʷ-ʎá (a compound with *ʎ́V 'kin, relationship'); Ub. def. á-mǝχ / a-mǝ́χ. In Ubykh there occurred a usual delabialisation after a labial consonant. All attempts of the inner analysis of the WC form (Yakovlev 1948, 273, Kuipers 1960, 85, Rogava 1956, 33, 64) are groundless; see Shagirov 1, 259-260.
abadet-prnum,abadet-meaning,abadet-abk,abadet-aba,abadet-adg,abadet-kab,abadet-ubk,abadet-comment,
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Yenisseian etymology :
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Proto-Yenisseian: *p[u]χV ( < *m[u]χV)
Meaning: nephew
Ket: hɨ́-tet 'nephew', hɨ́-tam 'niece' (Werner 1, 347), hɨ́am 'younger sister of wife' (Werner 1, 342)
Kottish: fu, phu, pl. fuan "nephew", alīt fua (phua) "niece"; Ass. (Бол.) puga "nephew, grandson", alippugi "niece", alitpuga "grand-daughter"
Arin: amagel (Стр.) "brother", bamagál (М., Сл., Срсл., Кл.) id.; (Стр.) bamagel "sister", bamagaĺā (М., Сл., Срсл., Кл.) id.; (Лоск.) amagildu "nephew"; mamagili "сестренич"; mamagil "братенич"
Comments: ССЕ 253-254. The Ket and Kott. languages point to PY *puχV (Werner 1, 347 <*phɨ>, not taking into account the Kott. -g-). The Arin matches are difficult in two respects: a) the word means both "nephew" and "brother/sister" - the latter must be a secondary semantic expansion of "brother's son" to "brother" in general, having replaced the original PY *b[i]s "brother / sister"; b) the -m- in Arin must reflect an original nasal, preserved after the prefixes a-, ba- and replaced by *p- elsewhere in Yenisseian. Phonetically the case is similar to the root for 'brain' *nɔʔŋ > *dɔʔŋ, which is preserved as *nɔʔŋ in the compound *goʔ-nɔʔŋ, but has regularly changed to *d- in independent position (Ket, Yug dɔʔŋ). Werner's objection: "die letztere Rekonstruktion [*m[u]χV] bleibt fraglich, weil sie sich auf ar. bamagal 'Bruder' stürzt, wo das anlautende b- eigentlich das Possessivpräfix der 1 P.Sg. ('mein') darstellt" - is rather strange: of course b- is a 1 p. prefix (as in numerous other cases), but the reconstruction is based not on it, but on the following -m- - which cannot be a prefix of any kind. Elsewhere (1, 32) Werner attempts a different approach to the Arin form, analyzing it as am "mother" + agel (?), cf. Pump. akil "older brother, sister". Pumpokol indeed has such a word (see under *ʒVl 'child'), but Arin has it too, namely Arin akel 'son', akelä 'daughter' (see ibid.). Whereas "brother" is of course "mother's son", "nephew" definitely is not: the compound am + akel 'mother's son' could have helped Arin amagel (amakel) to shift its meaning to include both "nephew" and "brother", but it cannot explain the meaning "nephew" in any reasonable way.
yenet-prnum,yenet-meaning,yenet-ket,yenet-kot,yenet-ari,yenet-notes,
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Long-range etymologies :
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Borean (approx.) : MVKV
Meaning : person, relative
Austric : PAA *mVk 'kinship term'
Amerind (misc.) : *mikʷ 'person' (R 550) [+ A K], *maq 'uncle (paternal)' (R 806) globet-meaning,globet-scc,globet-austr,globet-amer,
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