Universal #1660

Legacy number: 1660

 Number  1655
 Original  Whenever the same term is used to designate the mother and the father’s sister, this same term is used for the mother’s sister also.
 Standardized  IF the same term is used to designate the mother and the father’s sister, THEN this same term is used for the mother’s sister also.
 Keywords  kinship
 Domain  lexicon
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  revised version of Lowie’s 1928 and Kirchhoff’s 1932 schemes on particular kintypes and Murdock’s 1947 observations
 Source  Greenberg 1966c: 84, Greenberg 1980: 21-22

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Discussion
Notes
1. This is because mother’s sister shares matrilineality with mother and collaterality with father’s sister, but there is no common property of mother and father’s sister, the two most different terms, except female, first ascending generation, and this includes mother’s sister in its reference (Greenberg 1980: 22). 2. The references of Lowie (1928), Kirchhoff (1932), and Murdock (1947) see in the list for Counterexamples and Comments.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
1. This is because mother's sister shares matrilineality with mother and collaterality with father's sister, but there is no common property of mother and father's sister, the two most different terms, except female, first ascending generation, and this includes mother's sister in its reference (Greenberg 1980: 22).

2. The references of Lowie 1928, Kirchhoff 1932, and Murdock 1947 see in the list for Counterexamples and Comments.