may be used in address. Thus if a Koo's name is Shoga he may be addressed as Gaga.546
name, but apart from an actual father a perversion of the personal name [55] may be used in address. Thus if a Koo's name is Shoga he may be addressed as Gaga.
A mother is addressed as dee[56] 
and referred to as me ndikha. There is a special term, viz. ada for a father's sister (elder or younger) and this term is also applied to a mother's younger sister. But a mother's elder sister is addressed as baba, a term which normally carries the significance of "father". Just as a father's and mother's brothers are classed with elder brothers, so a father's sisters and a mother's younger sister are classed with elder sisters, for an elder sister is called ada.
Younger brothers and sisters (and cousins) are addressed by their personal names, and if very junior may be described as buwa nya, i.e. my little son. This is logical when it is remembered that elder brothers rank as fathers.
Nya = son and ngou = daughter. It may be noted that elder brothers may not be addressed by their personal names. The reason is obvious when we remember that they rank as fathers. But the reason given is that if a younger brother addressed an elder brother by his personal name, his own child might follow suit.
Male grandparents are addressed as tamtam and female as gogo, this latter term being used by the Fulani for "father's sister". But grandparents may also be described as Koom ngitane (i.e. big father) or me ngitane (big mother). Grandchildren are addressed by their personal names or as tandu. A grandmother may playfully call her grandson "my husband", and a grandfather may call his granddaughter "my wife" (and vice versa). But there is no potential intermarriage.
Parents-in-law and children-in-law address each other as guna [57]
, but it is usual for a woman to address her father-in-law as takurundi [58] 
, i.e. as "father of the house", and her mother-in-law as makurindi, i.e. as "mother of the house". Just as elder brothers are classed as fathers, so elder brothers-in-law or sisters-in-law are classed as parents-in-law, i.e. they are addressed as guna. Younger brothers-in-law or sisters-in-law are addressed as nyini[59] 
, and this term is also applied to the wife of a maternal uncle, and is used by her towards her husband's nephew or niece.
Husbands and wives address each other by their personal