mārja
isn’t actually a kinship term. mārja refers to the female head of the clan, who is usually one of the older females in the clan.
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mārja
isn’t actually a kinship term. mārja refers to the female head of the clan, who is usually one of the older females in the clan.
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I like these two words mÄrÅn and mÄrja. It occurred to me there might have been an inspiration with the IE words mar- for maritus and marya in Sanskrit. Did you get some inspirations in those words or in some form of these Indo-European roots?
No. The m- prefix (also ma-) denotes an animate noun, so the stems for these words are -ÄrÅn- and -Ärj- respectively. Singular nouns end in -a/-e/or null ending.
Likewise j-/ja- denotes an inanimate noun, an- occurs with inanimate collectives and with statives, and s-/sa- is 3rd person singular possessive (for obligatorily possessed nouns only).
I’m not sure where -ÄrÅn- and -Ärj- came from.