Enate

"Enate" in a Sentence (2 examples)

A great-grandmother is an enate if she is your mother’s mother's mother.

Similarly, since the wearing of a sawat is importantly informed by matrilineal group membership — an enate of the deceased cannot wear a sawat — it would be an error to assume that matrilineal group membership is necessarily salient in explaining the behavior of a social actor.

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