19. According to Dohnë's 1857 dictionary, "This word describes a custom between the nearest relations, and is exclusively applied to the female sex, who, when married, are not allowed to call the names of relatives of their husbands nor of their father-in-law. They must keep at a distance from the latter. Hence, they have the habit of inventing new names for the members of the family, which is always resorted to when those names happen to be either derived from, or equivalent to some word of the common language, as, for instance, if the father or brother-in law is called umehlo, which is derived from amehlo, eyes — the isifazi will no longer use amehlo but substitute amakangelo (looking)".


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