matēnnīkōn
We’re on sentence 14 of the LCC4 relay text:
temme ien pa ē matēnnīkōnēri ē matēnnīkōnēle ī le ancē ja sere jāo;
So, a matēnnīkōn is someone who is/was engaged in the jatēnnīke ceremony with someone. Here this translates as “spouse” or “husband” or “wife”. More on this sentence tomorrow.
mamō
Here’s the second sentence of the 18th Conlang Relay Text
sū mamō salōmme ñi matūmse manīsen marēwa;
The word mamō refers to a young man. The word in the text I got talked about a boy, but this did not fit with the idea of who this character ought to be. As I mentioned earlier, with a little tweaking, this story was about two legendary Kēleni culture-heroes. Using the word for young man rather than boy was part of the tweaking.
The locative phrase sū mamō salōmme is “In the young man’s arms…”.
marāona
a person who is engaged in their time of wandering, traditionally a year-long endeavor. Generally, this is the time period between childhood and adulthood, or the time period at the beginning of adulthood. However, some people become marāona more than once in their lives, and some stay marāona for more than the year or so that is traditional.
macīwa
a baby or infant, one that has not yet learned to walk and must be carried.
mīsa
a child, not yet adult.
mamōlanen
a woman who has given birth, a mature woman.
māŋŋāona
an adult person, no longer a child.
mārōn
is also not a kinship term. The mārōn is the male head of the clan, sometimes the mārja’s brother or husband, but not necessarily so. The word is also used to translate Lord in the Babel Text.
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.
mēlīña
grandchild, one’s daughter’s child, any small child of any gender in one’s clan. The green squares in the diagram are the purple circle’s mēlīñi.
