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sublineage

sublineage noun: a subordinate part of a lineage.

Noun

sublineage (plural sublineages)

  1. A subordinate part of a lineage
    • At that time, before sublineation had become significant for the local group, banishment would have amounted to dismissing a troublesome individual and his wife and children, rather than an entire sublineage consisting of several families ...1961, Louis C. Faron, Mapuche Social Structure, page 97
    • Many Hakka on the Pingtung plain who bear the surname Ch’en and trace their origins to Chiaying chou in Kwangtung are genealogically divided into several hu, or sublineages. Most of Tatieh's Ch’en belong to a sublineage known as Nan-shan, or “South Mountain.” As in the case of Hsü, Nan-shan Ch’en...1972, Burton Pasternak, “Kinship”, in Kinship & Community in Two Chinese Villages, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 76

Examples of sublineage in a sentence

  • Many Hakka on the Pingtung plain who bear the surname Ch’en and trace their origins to Chiaying chou in Kwangtung are genealogically divided into several hu, or sublineages.1972, Burton Pasternak, “Kinship”, in Kinship & Community in Two Chinese Villages, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN...
  • These sublineage groups typically consist of three or four generations of brothers and their sons.2002, Kathryn S. March, "If Each Comes Halfway": Meeting Tamang Women in Nepal, →ISBN, page 144:

Forms of sublineage

pluralsublineages

Origin of sublineage

From sub- + lineage.

Words formed from sublineage

Questions about sublineage

What does sublineage mean?
Sublineage means a subordinate part of a lineage.
How do you use sublineage in a sentence?
Many Hakka on the Pingtung plain who bear the surname Ch’en and trace their origins to Chiaying chou in Kwangtung are genealogically divided into several hu, or sublineages.
What part of speech is sublineage?
Sublineage is a noun.
What is the plural of sublineage?
The plural of sublineage is sublineages.

Words near sublineage in the dictionary

  1. sublimized
  2. sublimizes
  3. sublimizing
  4. sublimnic
  5. subline
  6. sublineage
  7. sublineages
  8. sublinear
  9. sublinearities
  10. sublinearity
  11. sublinearly

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