disharmonic

disharmonic englanniksi

1. Not harmonic.

2. Of or relating to a generation that is an odd number of generations distant from a particular person.

3. 1979, Barry J. Blake & M. W. Dixon|R. M. W. Dixon, ''The Handbook of Australian Languages''

A person is 'harmonic' with respect to his own generation and all even-numbered generations counting away from his own, and 'disharmonic' with respect to odd-numbered generations. Thus a man is disharmonic with respect to his father and his son but harmonic with respect to his grandfather and his grandson.

4. 1995, Alan Dench, ''Martuthunira: A Language of the Pilbara Region of Western Australia''

(..) there is also a special set of (non-singular first person) pronoun forms for use with disharmonic kin: those in the opposite generation set. (..) The two disharmonic pronouns are used as polite forms when the addressee and speaker are in different alternate generation sets.