Word Class: VTrA1
(father) to beget (child)
Notes: 14.3.3, 34.2.6, 72.3.5, 80.1.2/6, 114.11.6rdp. Indicates actual blood relationship as opposed to purely nominal (classificatory) father/child relationship. However, this verb can also be used to indicate the relationship between the (actual) father s sister and the child, as in ngunu=lhama-yn She begat him (i.e., she is his actual father s sister); for similar uses of the corresponding term for (mother) to bear (child) see =yaba-.