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odaangoshenyan nad gh
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her cross-cousin: (a female cross-cousin: her mother's brother's daughter, her father's sister's daughter)

Note:
There is no simple independent word for this kind of cousin, a kind of cross-cousin (a female’s mother’s brother’s daughter or father’s sister’s daughter). A personal prefix goes with the dependent noun stem /=daangosheny-/ female’s female cross-cousin to make a full word:
  • nindaangoshenh, indaangoshenh, ndaangoshenh my cross-cousin (1s-3s)
  • gidaangoshenh your cross-cousin (2s-3s)
  • odaangoshenyan her cross-cousin
    • [MN] odaangoshenyan her cross-cousin (3s-3')
    • [BL] odaangoshenyan her cross-cousin (3s-3's)
    • [BL] odaangoshenya’ her cross-cousin (3s-3'p)
Some basic forms of odaangoshenyan her cross-cousin are:



odaangoshenyan obv; odaangoshenyan obv sg; odaangoshenya' obv pl; Stem: /=daaangosheny-/

odaangoshenyan obv es
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