da² dyad: construction referring to a couple of kin-related individuals

Part of Speech	quantifier
Phonetic Form	ⁿda
Tanema Equivalent	dea
Lovono Equivalent	dea

• • dyad: construction referring to a couple of kin-related individuals
  • • Gram

  Syntactic Restriction

  foll. by possessed kin term

  • • Example 502:
      

      da til’ iape

      [lit. both his brother] two brothers

    • Example 503:
      

      d’ ai’ iape

      [lit. both his father] a father–child pair

    • Example 504:
      

      da gi’ iape

      [lit. both his uncle] an uncle–nephew pair

    • Example 505:
      

      da pi’ iape

      [lit. both his grandfather] the grandfather and his grandson

    • Example 506:
      

      da uk’ iape

      [lit. both his in-law] two in-laws

Related entries

• Heterosemes:
  • da¹ 3rd person dual independent pronoun, referring to a pair of people already mentioned in discourse / they / them: anaphoric third dual pronoun, referring to a pair of people already mentioned in discourse / their: 3rd dual possessor of inalienable nouns
  • da³ (X) and (Y): serves as a coordinator between two human individuals