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Word of the Day for Sunday, June 19, 2011virilocal \vir-uh-LOH-kuhl\, adjective: Living with or located near a husband's father's family. By contrast, when marriage is virilocal, the ties between married women and their natal groups are commonly attenuated. According to tradition the Ngoni were a virilocal people, yet if a man went to live with his wife's relatives his own kinsfolk could not force him to return by appealing to this virilocal tradition. Virilocal combines the Latin roots Viri-, "man," and -local, "of a specific place." | |||||||||
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