couvades in English

noun
1
the custom in some cultures in which a man takes to his bed and goes through certain rituals when his child is being born, as though he were physically affected by the birth.
The only known cure for couvade is - birth.

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1. Some of these relationships are: avoidance, teknonymy, avunculate, Amitate, couvades and joking relationship.

2. Hello dostonin this video I have explained about kinship usagesthese are 1) rule of avoidance 2) teknonymy3) avunculate4) Amitate 5) couvades 6) joking relat