Tete

father's sister

Ukama uhu

Tete ihanzvadzi yababa vako. Vanodaidza vana vehanzvadzi yavo kuti vazukuru kana kuti mwana wehanzvadzi. Tete ndivo vanodzidzisa vasikana tsika, kuzvichengeta nezvewanano. Pakuroora nepanhaka, tete vane basa guru mumhuri.

Mienzaniso

Chero pandakaroorwa vanatete vakatsinhira vatsinhirazve, “Mwana wehanzvadzi ziva kuti uno musha wavaridzi.

Tete vakandituma kuchigayo nechibage chavo changove zvipfukuto chete.

Rudo akafunga zvekutsika tete vake avo vaigara kwaMutare.

DiviFather's side

Anokudana kutiMuzukuru (she also says mwana wehanzvadzi)

KukwazisaTete, or vatete for respect; vanatete for several.

In English

Tete is your father's sister, the aunt who counsels her brother's children, above all the girls, on conduct and marriage.

Tete is the sister of your father, and a married woman also calls her husband's sister tete. Her brother's children are her vazukuru, and she often calls them mwana wehanzvadzi, 'child of my brother'. Custom placed her so close that a child was said to have three parents: mother, father and tete. Her main work is shaping the conduct of her brother's children, especially the girls, teaching them self-respect, the customs of marriage and how to prepare for married life.

Marriage is where she matters most. Tete has the authority to confirm a woman as a wife, helps settle quarrels between spouses and matters of childlessness, and at roora the money a bride picks from the plate for herself may be set by her aunt or her sister; one of the roora cattle, yechimanda, is named for the aunt. In the textbook compositions she gives a niece her last counsel before marriage, and the vatete remind a new bride that she now lives in her husband's family's home. She also has a place in nhaka, where a dead man's sisters join the vazukuru and his younger brothers in the inheritance ceremony, and in the old custom of chimutsamapfihwa a girl could be given to the husband of her late tete to take her place.

Mibvunzo.

Who is tete in Shona culture?

Tete is your father's sister. She teaches her brother's children, especially the girls, about conduct and marriage, and custom counted her almost as a third parent.

What does tete do at roora and in marriage?

She prepares the bride for married life, may set the amount of money the bride picks from the plate during roora, has the authority to confirm a woman as a wife, and helps settle quarrels between spouses.

Hama dzedivi rimwe chete.

BabaBaba is the Shona word for father, and the same word is used for a father's brothers, for a spouse's father and, as a mark of respect, for any older man.SekuruSekuru means grandfather in Shona, on either side of the family, and the same word is used for your mother's brother.AmbuyaAmbuya means grandmother in Shona, the mother of either parent, and the grandmother was traditionally the family's teller of folk tales.BabamukuruBabamukuru is your father's elder brother, counted in Shona families as a senior father.BabamuniniBabamunini is your father's younger brother, counted in Shona families as a junior father.NevanjiNevanji is given as the Shona term for the heir who takes up a dead relative's name, place and duties, though one Shona dictionary defines it as a family's first-born son.

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