What a wonderful page! Once again, thank you wwh. I am delighted by the terminology, viz., Collateral Kinsmen, Fictive Kinship, Prescriptive Marriage.

Teknonymy: "A practice whereby a child does not take his name from its parents but rather parents derive a name from their child. For example, an adult is known as "the father of so-and-so." ES:79.

Such an interesting concept, this. Seems like the counterpart of the Russian naming tradition. And is it therefore possible to decipher one's childless state from his or her name? And what about multiple children? Or is it a generic term, that when added to a name, indicates a parous state? Anyone know more about this?