Formation and Suffixation of the Terms for Kinship :
Forma'zion e Sufisa'zion de i Nomi de Parentela.
Morfoloja de i sufìsi in
-ter e
-w(o)/wyo:
From the morphological point of view, the great unity of the Indo-European vocabulary of kinship emerges from the existence of the class suffix *-ter (or *-er), which not only characterizes a great number of the most ancient terms (*pǝter, etc.), but still continues to figure in the most recent creations or remodeled expressions.
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Less specific than *-ter, and also less studied, is the suffix *-w(o)-/-wyo-which seems to have indicated homostathmic (= ‘at the same level’) proximity: *pəter father”— Greek patrō(u)s, Sanskrit pitrvya- “father’s brother.” The anomalies presented, for instance, by Gr. patruíos “stepfather,” Skt. bhrā́tr̥vya- “brother’s son, later “cousin” > “enemy” may lead us not to question the ancient values of the suffix, but to interpret the deviation which it has undergone by reference in each case to the particular system in which these forms occur.
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We believe it is necessary, in particular, in defining the changes which have come about in the course of history in the application of the words to the degree of relationship, to distinguish the relationship between members of the same generation, which we will call homostathmic (= at the same level), and the relationship between members of different generations, which we will call heterostathmic (= of different levels). [2] The relationship of fraternity is homostathmic, the relationship of ancestrality is heterostathmic.
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Bixogna distìnguare la rela'zion de parentela fra membri de la stésa jenera'zion, ke la vien dìta
omostatmica e la rela'zion fra membri de jenera'zion difarenti, ke la vien dita
eterostatmica.
Mi ghe zontarìa anca el concèto de
vivente/morto, oltre cueo de l livèlo e cueo de l
tènpo, porasè inportante.