kandere

Note that aunty and uncle are increasingly common and look set to take over from kandere. Note that in many Papua New Guinea kinship systems, one term serves for each of the English pairs ‘aunt’ / ‘niece’, and ‘uncle’ / ‘nephew’ and thus aunty and uncle double as English ‘niece’ and ‘nephew’.

® tambu.

Noun forms

1. Kinship: mother’s brother or sister’s son
   em i go sindaun long graun bilong kandere bilong em he settled on his uncle’s land

2. Kinship: any matrilateral kin (relatives from one’s mother’s people); a cross-cousin ® bilum, kas²
   kandere meri female relative on the mother’ side
   ol kandere kam long haus krai his mother’s people came and mourned him

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