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Enate vs Eate - What's the difference?

enate | eate |

As a noun enate

is a relative whose relation is traced only through female members of the family.

As an adjective enate

is related to someone by female connections.

As a verb eate is

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enate

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A relative whose relation is traced only through female members of the family.
    • A great grandmother is an enate if she is your mother’s mother's mother.
  • * 2000 , Alexander H. Bolyanatz, Mortuary Feasting on New Ireland: The Activation of Matriliny Among the Sursurunga , page 86,
    • 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.
  • Any maternal female relative.

    • Antonyms

    * agnate

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Related to someone by female connections.
  • Related on the maternal side of the family.
  • (linguistics) Having identical grammatical structure (but with elements that are semantically different).
  • Growing out.

    • Coordinate terms

    * agnate (also linguistics )

    Synonyms

    * enatic

    Anagrams

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    eate

    English

    Verb

    (head)