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roughly indicates the stages of their life; for these stages in practice merge into one another.

Designations of Age

1. Waywaya (foetus; infant till the age of crawling, both male and female)		$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	I. Stage: Gwadi — Word used as a generic designation for all these stages 1-4, meaning child, male or female, at any time between birth and maturity
2. Pwapwawa (infant, till the stage of walking, male or female)
3. Gwadi (child, till puberty, male or female)
4. Monagwadi (male child)	4. Inagwadi (female child)
5. To'ulatile (youth from puberty till marriage)	5. Nakapugula or Nakubukwabuya (girl from puberty till marriage)	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	II. Stage: Generic designations — Ta'u (man), Vivila (woman)
6. Tobubowa'u (mature man)	6. Nabubowa'u (ripe woman)
6a. Tovavaygile (married man)	6a. Navavaygile (married woman)
7. Tomwaya (old man)	7. Numwaya (old woman)	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	III. Stage: Old age
7a. Toboma (old honoured man)

The terms used in this table will be found to overlap in some instances. Thus a very small infant may be referred to as waywaya or pwapwawa indiscriminately, but only the former term as a rule would be used in speaking of a fœtus or referring to the pre-incarnated children from Tuma.^[1] Again, you might call a few months old child either gwadi or pwapwawa, but the latter term would be but seldom used except for a very small baby. The term gwadi moreover can be used generically, as "child" in English, to denote anything from a fœtus to a young boy or girl. Thus, it will be seen that two terms may encroach on each other's field of meaning, but only

1. Cf. ch. vii, sec. 2.