patrilectal
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Consistent with the patrilect.
Example Sentences
- "In short, the tendencies to regional endogamy (including coastal area endogamy) and patrilectal exogamy exist in practice, if not in law."
- "Sui children rapidly learn to distinguish these clan-related dialects; young children may speak a mix of matrilect and patrilect, but older children and teenagers are almost fully patrilectal (Stanford, 2008b)."
- "Children above five are ridiculed for any use of their mother's speech pattern, and by age five to seven, children use the patrilectal forms."
- "Sui children have a mix of matrilect and patrilect at very young ages, but they eventually become fully patrilectal by late adolescence."
Etymology
From patrilect + -al.