[Buddha-l] 'cross'-cousin

[Katherine Masis]

Yes, of course.  I wasn't referring to the article, but to Richard's post about his very own "cross" cousin.  I was joking as well.  Thanks, anyway.
 
Katherine
-------------------------------
From: F.K. Lehman (F.K.L. Chit Hlaing) 
Subject: 'cross'-cousin
To: twin_oceans at yahoo.com
Date: Wednesday, August 27, 2008, 1:09 PM

No. Cross, here, refers to a genealogical relationship where the 
immediate linkage is between a pair of sibling of opposite sex ; so 
cross siblings are brother/sister, an a cross-cousin is the child of 
your mother's brother or of your father's sister. The correlative 
term is 'parallel: parallel siblings are same sex siblings (sets of 
brothers, sets of sisters), and one' parallel cousin is a child of 
one's father's brother or mother's sister.
-- 
F. K. L. Chit Hlaing
Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign