patrilineally
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- adverb
- /ˌpætrɪˈlɪniəli/
- Specialized
- Tamang shamanism exists side by side with Tamang Buddhism, in which the position of lama is patrilineally inherited, thus creating a lame clan of part-time laymen and clergy.
Examples
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In many cultures, property is inherited patrilineally, passing down through the father's family line.
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First, whereas the Managalase previously traced descent bilaterally, the government only traced it patrilineally.
Academic text (1991) -
Of more significance, however, is membership in one of the two kiva moieties, Squash and Turquoise, which are also patrilineally based.
Academic text (2005) -
To avoid problems encountered elsewhere in Papua, they specifically instructed the Managalase to grow coffee in family plots on their "real" land, land they had inherited patrilineally.
Academic text (1991) -
If 11.8 percent of marriages in these villages were bringing in Han men in each generation (see Table 3), then over several generations there was a significant proportion of the village population that was patrilineally Han.
Academic text (2001) -
Nuer fission did not have the results it had among the Dinka because matrilaterally related groups preferred to retain their own patrilineally defined autonomy.
Academic text (1990) -
The land and the trappings of the lifestyle were tangibles that could be inherited, with elder sons preferred; the status was an intangible passed on patrilineally.
Academic text (1992) -
Although the majority of Igbo-speaking girls during this period were unlikely to approach the missions, Dennis' account shows us that some were not only willing to take the risk of offending their parents and destroying their patrilineally arranged marital opportunities, they had determined upon it.
Academic text (2000) -
Anthony Gittins, for instance, distinguishes between "full members" of Njayei, who are men and women patrilineally related to the original custodian of the medicine, and those who are simply patients or clients of the latter (Gittins 1987:115).
Academic text (1993) -
In the same way that the God-king-viceroy operates patrilineally in Olmedo's prior production, the code Sun-Inca-Bolivar openly emphasizes the paternal links between each of its three constituent deity figures.
Academic text (2001)
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
patrilineally = patrilineal (semi-transparent) = patrilineal + ly
The adverb is formed in the regular way by adding '-ly' to the adjective 'patrilineal', so the step from the immediate base to the target is transparent.
Etymology
Patrilineally begins with patri- which means 'father' and is the same root you see in paternity and patriarch, and it includes line meaning 'line' or 'family line'. So, to act patrilineally is to follow the father's line of descent, for example when inheritance passes from father to son.