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13 Dec, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Definition of terms
✓Grandfather- Guka/Wagui
✓Grandmother- cūcū/ maitū
✓Father - Baba/ Awa
✓ Mother - Mami / Maitū
✓ Son - Mūrū
✓ Daughter - Mwarī
✓Brother - Mūrū wa maitū
✓ Sister - Mwarī wa maitū
✓Nephew/ Niece - Mūihwa
✓ Male cousin - Mūrū wa iya
✓ Female cousin - Mwarī wa iya
✓ Sister in law - Maramu
✓ Brother in law - Wamûgongo
✓ Father in law (your husband's father) - Iciciara
✓ Mother in law (your husband's mother)- nyaciara
✓ Grandchildren - Tūcūkūrū
Great grandchildren - Cūkūrūkū
✓ 1st wife - Nyakīambi
✓ 2nd wife - Nyakīambūri
✓ 3rd wife - Mūte itūūra
✓ Mother's brother -Uncle - Mama
✓ Mother's sister Aunty - Taata
✓ Fathers older brother- Baba Mūkūrū
✓ Father's older brother's wife - Maitū Mūkūrū
✓ Father's younger brother- Baba Mūnyinyi
✓ Father's Younger Brother's wife- Maitū Mūnyinyi
✓ Person named after mothers side - Gīthūmba
✓ Person named after father's side - Nyamūriū/ nyamwarî
Link to part 4 of our marriage series.
✓ Grand Children - Tūcūcū
✓ Great Grandchildren - Tūcūkūrū
✓ Great great grandchildren - Cūkūrūkū

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11 Dec
Part 4 Questions and Answers
Thank you all for have read our parts 1,2, and 3 of our marriage series. This week, we are responding to the questions we have received. Next week we post on the kind of marriages among the Agìkūyu including polygamy, woman to woman marriages. ImageImageImage
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