PPn *kainaŋa

Glosses

• a land-holding exogamous descent group tracing descent from a common ancestor and headed by an *qariki
• clan, unilineal descent group
• cognatic descent group
• descent group, headed by an *qariki “chief”
• populace, commoners
• the subjects of a chief, the common people

References

Cognatesets

• PPn *kainaŋa ‘clan, unilineal descent group; cognatic descent group; populace, commoners’ with glosses clan, unilineal descent group cognatic descent group populace, commoners
• PPn kainaŋa_ ‘a land-holding exogamous descent group tracing descent from a common ancestor and headed by an _qariki; descent group, headed by an *qariki “chief”; the subjects of a chief, the common people’ with glosses a land-holding exogamous descent group tracing descent from a common ancestor and headed by an *qariki descent group, headed by an *qariki “chief” the subjects of a chief, the common people

Sections

• 6.4 Social rank and lunations
  • clan, unilineal descent group
  • cognatic descent group
  • populace, commoners
• 6.5 Settlement patterns and territory in the Proto Oceanic speech community
  • a land-holding exogamous descent group tracing descent from a common ancestor and headed by an *qariki
  • descent group, headed by an *qariki “chief”
  • the subjects of a chief, the common people