sanerontheinside:

norcumi:

thefreelancerdivision:

Mando’a word for niece/nephew

bu’vodu???

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Thought process:

ba‘vodu (aunt/uncle, pl. bavodu’e)

ba‘buir (grandparent)

ba = one generation older?

bu‘ad (grandchild)

bu = one generation younger?

I am really bad at this. A bit of digging turned up a fan-term “ba’ad” (from here), but honestly your logic makes sense to me.

… you know I think there’s a chance they don’t have one, culturally—because of cooperative, clan-based raising of children rather than with family specifications? I mean, yes, parents (buir) and siblings (vode) are important, but you would raise children of the clan no matter whose they were, right? 

I don’t have much to back this, tho, buir’tsad means family lineage and the note put next to it in the Mando’a dictionary says it’s specifically a reference to biological lineage, and rarely used. 

that aside, tho: 

bah is the dative form of ‘to’, so a grandparent might have the shortened form of ‘parent to [your parent]’, ba’buir. 

it’s a little different with ba’vodu, because by the logic above, I’m trying to form ‘sibling to your parent’. …. now it’s more like ‘to [your parent] sibling’, which is interesting. 

Actually that makes sense, because dative means giving, so your parent was given a sibling, or given a parent in the case of ba’buir.
(it’s definitely within Mandalorian culture to be able to refuse/disown a parent, so I suppose while it’s expected that a parent will do their duty by their children, it’s also of term of respect for the grandparent who did their job right)

does the logic hold for ‘to [your child] children’ (i.e. grandchildren)? bu’ad: children are ade. The root of bu is likely buir, and most of that branch appears to imply responsibility (ex. buirkan). 

so, ‘to [your sibling] children’? vo’ad? lol.

@maawi halp