bestengusu
Basque
FWOTD – 9 July 2024
Alternative forms
- bestelengusu, bertzengusu
Etymology
From beste (“other”) + lehengusu (“male cousin”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bes̺tenɡus̺u/ [bes̺.t̪eŋ.ɡu.s̺u]
- Rhymes: -us̺u, -u
- Hyphenation: bes‧ten‧gu‧su
Noun
bestengusu inan
- (rare) male second cousin
- Synonyms: lehengusu txiki, izter-lehengusu, bigarren lehengusu
- Coordinate term: bestengusina (“female second cousin”)
- c. 1808, Juan Bautista Aguirre, Eracusaldiac [Lessons][1], Tolosa, published 1850, page 560:
- Aidetasun au iristen da laugarren mallaraño, eta emendic eciñ ezcondu ditezque elcarrequin senideac, lengusu, bestengusu, eta erengusuac.
- [Aidetasun au iristen da laugarren mallaraño, eta emendik eziñ ezkondu ditezke elkarrekin senideak, lengusu, bestengusu eta erengusuak.]
- This kinship reaches the fourth level, and thus siblings, cousins, second cousins and third cousins cannot marry each other.
Declension
| indefinite | singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| absolutive | bestengusu | bestengusua | bestengusuak |
| ergative | bestengusuk | bestengusuak | bestengusuek |
| dative | bestengusuri | bestengusuari | bestengusuei |
| genitive | bestengusuren | bestengusuaren | bestengusuen |
| comitative | bestengusurekin | bestengusuarekin | bestengusuekin |
| causative | bestengusurengatik | bestengusuarengatik | bestengusuengatik |
| benefactive | bestengusurentzat | bestengusuarentzat | bestengusuentzat |
| instrumental | bestengusuz | bestengusuaz | bestengusuez |
| inessive | bestengusurengan | bestengusuarengan | bestengusuengan |
| locative | — | — | — |
| allative | bestengusurengana | bestengusuarengana | bestengusuengana |
| terminative | bestengusurenganaino | bestengusuarenganaino | bestengusuenganaino |
| directive | bestengusurenganantz | bestengusuarenganantz | bestengusuenganantz |
| destinative | bestengusurenganako | bestengusuarenganako | bestengusuenganako |
| ablative | bestengusurengandik | bestengusuarengandik | bestengusuengandik |
| partitive | bestengusurik | — | — |
| prolative | bestengusutzat | — | — |
Further reading
- “bestengusu”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
- “bestengusu”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005