Lexicographical Neighbors of Punalua
Literary usage of Punalua
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Primitive Family in Its Origin and Development by Carl Nicolai Starcke (1889)
"... nomenclature—Nomenclature and the clan— Importance of ceremonial—Paternal and
maternal kinship—punalua kinsfolk of Malayan nomenclature—Priority of ..."
2. The Primitive Family in Its Origin and Development by Carl Nicolai Starcke (1889)
"... nomenclature—Nomenclature and the clan— Importance of ceremonial—Paternal and
maternal kinship—punalua kinsfolk of Malayan nomenclature—Priority of ..."
3. The Development of Marriage and Kinship by Charles Staniland Wake (1889)
"Now, as a fact, the latter phase of punalua is associated with male kinship among
the Turanian peoples, who possess a system of relationship similar to the ..."
4. Looking Forward: A Treatise on the Status of Woman and the Origin and Growth by Philip Rappaport (1906)
"But the wife of her husband's brother she calls punalua, and the several wives
of her husband's brothers stand to her in the same relationship of ..."
5. The Origin of Civilisation and the Primitive Condition of Man: Mental and by John Lubbock (1875)
"Brother-in-law = wife's sister's husband = punalua. Thus a woman has husbands
and sisters-in-law, but no brothers-in-law ; a man, on the contrary, ..."
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