Meaning of enate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A relative whose relation is traced only through female members of the family.
2. Any maternal female relative.

Equivalents

Examples

“A great-grandmother is an enate if she is your mother’s mother's mother.”

“Similarly, since the wearing of a sawat is importantly informed by matrilineal group membership — an enate of the deceased cannot wear a sawat — it would be an error to assume that matrilineal group membership is necessarily salient in explaining the behavior of a social actor.”

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