So . let ' s see . Shawi doesn ' t have any of the conventional kinship terms , but they ' re strictly linked with someone ' s age instead e . g . bozo means ' boy , man , brother , son , grandson , nephew , cousin , uncle ', basically any 14 ~ 32 yo male , regardless your relationship with him doesn ' t morphologically distinguish ' talk ' and ' saytell ' I mean , it ' s the same word , in fact to express the idea of ' talk , have a conversation with ', one says ' to say with someone ' doesn ' t distinguish ' to drink , sip , suck , breath and smoke ' ' week ' and ' season ' are the same ! my altEarth full orbit lasts 16 days ! has naturalgender distinction bozo boyman vs nuze girlwoman , but not for the two ends , in fact kih is c h ildsondaughternephewniece while babo is grandmotherfatherold uncleauntperson in general doesn ' t distinguish ' pointtip , endextremity , peaktop ', basically the same word is used to mean sharp part point and topside , which then conflate in ' peak ' both the higher part of the mountain and its point the concepts ' to stop , slow down and wait ' are basically the same , however they are devided into two words , the action verb suma to stopslow down and the adjectival verb sum to be slowbe fixednot movingwait . They also mean ' to happen afterbecause something as a natural consequence ' e . g . if you eat too much candies , toothache followsslowly comes as a natural consequence the plural ' tends ' alse means ' campsite ' ' to pick up from the ground , to choose among options , to vote a law , to elect a leader , to draw , toss up ' all are the same verb has a word for mom , which is mah , but since the weird kinship terms ' father ' and ' uncle ' are both baki