Phratries is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 677 anagrams from letters in phratries (aehiprrst).
1745-55; Greek phrātría, equivalent to phrātr-, stem of phrātḗr clansman (akin to brother) + -ia -y3
The Mexican phratry was largely concerned with military matters.
Some members of the Wolf phratry assert a right to the Eagle crest.
It was the basis of the phratry, of the tribe, and of the confederacy of tribes.
A person would be described as of such a gens, phratry, and tribe.
Each class has a choice between the two classes of the other phratry.
It is somewhat difficult to understand just what the rights and duties of a phratry were.
The mother gens was distinguished from these as the phratry.
In other words, the phratry is like a species of which the clans are varieties.
It is true that in both cases the offer must come from the other phratry.
They were in both phratries; the other totems were confined to one or the other phratry.
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