A great-grandmother is an enate if she is your mother’s mother's mother.
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Enate
Synonyms for "enate" (49 found)
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Finnish
2 entries- naislinjainen adj (related by female connections)
- äidinpuoleinen adj (related on the maternal side)
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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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