aigan.
/ɑːˈiːŋə/, U.S. /ɑˈiŋə/ In Samoa: a family unit, a household.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > family > [noun] > family or household
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houseeOE
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houseshipOE
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private family1598
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family circle1768
family unit1860
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aiga1895
ohana1926
1895 Scribner's Mag. Oct. 462/2 Mr. Stevenson was..a considerable land-owner..with taro-swamps, banana plantations, and a Samoan ‘aiga’ or family.
1902 L. P. Churchill Samoa 'Uma ii. 24 There is a certain rigidity which rules every man and woman. That is the Samoan family or ainga, the collective household of common ancestry.
1929 M. Mead Coming of Age in Samoa iv. 45 The word aiga is used roughly to cover all relationships by blood, marriage and adoption, and the emotional tone seems to be the same in each case.
1979 A. Wendt Leaves of Banyan Tree i. i. 3 Now it was evening, time for prayers... Masina..got out the Bible which had been in her aiga since the missionaries came.
2004 B. Goodwin Frommer's South Pacific xii. iii. 349 Unlike the Western nuclear family, an aiga can include thousands of relatives and in-laws. In this basically communal system, everything is owned collectively by the aiga.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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