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PRONUNCIATION:

(poo-nuh-LOO-uh) 

MEANING:

noun: A group of brothers marrying a group of sisters.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Hawaiian. Earliest documented use: 1860.

USAGE:

"In turn, the Turanian kinship system reflects the organization on the basis of punalua and the gens.”
 Marshall Sahlins; Culture and Practical Reason; University of Chicago Press; 1976.