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From: "C. Allen" <>
Subject: [CROATIA-L] Re: CROATIA-D Digest V00 #58
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 18:46:43 -0700
In-Reply-To: <200004070920.CAA13491@bl-14.rootsweb.com>



when I was a girl we called my grandma's next door neighbor Kuma (Kovatich)
- she was quite elderly, and I never did know her first name (I thought
that WAS her first name, until I got older), but I was told kum/kuma could
also be used as terms of respect for elders. (In addition to being
godparents.) I remember her and my grandma sitting on grandma's front
porch (in Ohio) chattering away in Croatian.


Carole in Seattle


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wrote:
>
>Kum does mean Godfather in Croatian and Kuma is Godmother. Kumc^e is Godson
>and Kumica is Goddaughter.
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