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Agnatic[0] cultures placing great significance on who’s in line to inherit the family’s wealth and who’s not, is my guess. As a commenter in the thread two yea
by mercutio2 3y ago
Agnatic[0] cultures placing great significance on who’s in line to inherit the family’s wealth and who’s not, is my guess.
As a commenter in the thread two years ago noted[1], this represents (in Agnatic cultures) “female cousin who is not part of my close family (different last names)”.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnatic_seniority https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnatic_seniority
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28716275 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28716275
- Dylan16807 3y agoOh, "different last names" is an interesting aspect. Someone else linked a page on Chinese kinship terms but it gave an incorrectly simplified definition for the same term so I didn't realize it was a match.
- astrange 3y ago"last name" also being a funny term since it comes first in Chinese. I'm not sure it's used for patronymic countries like Iceland either.