otukaka

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) her brother the brother of a girl or woman
 * 2) her male cousin for a woman, any son of the siblings of either parent, or by extension, any male cousin of the same generation as the woman in question.
 * 3) her husband in the event that a young wife has not yet borne children by her husband, a polite way to refer to her husband is as "her brother".
 * 1) her husband in the event that a young wife has not yet borne children by her husband, a polite way to refer to her husband is as "her brother".

Usage notes

 * Wauja women generally marry a cousin, whom they have have grown up calling "brother." Once a young couple has a child, the woman's husband may be referred to as "father of so-and-so".
 * -tukaka is a bound morpheme and must always have a possessive prefix, answering the question "whose brother"? In other words, this noun is obligatorily possessed, and must show possession by someone. In the Wauja way of thinking, a brother is always somebody's brother.


 * -tukaka becomes -tsukaka when the preceding vowel is i. Example: pitsukaka, ("your brother").


 * In referring to siblings, Wauja distinguishes (1) whether the siblings are opposite gender, and (2) if the same gender, their relative seniority to one another. In other words, a man may not simply say, "my brother". He must choose either the word that means "my elder brother," or the word that means "my younger brother." In contrast, people refer to their opposite-gender siblings using a word that marks the relationship as opposite gender, but does not mark relative seniority. Ideally, brothers and sisters are lifelong partners, so that a man is widowed and in mourning, his sister might make him a hammock, and if a woman is widowed and in mourning, her brother will bring her fish to eat.

Inflection
My, our, your (sing.) your (plural), her, their (the girls' or women's) brother.