 The people who were already settled when "Gheg Lazar" arrived in what is now Hoti were described as "Anas", with whom Hoti could intermarry as they were not related patrilineally.As Hoti was a "fis" (tribe) of the same patrilineal ancestry, it did not intermarry within the tribe.The two tribes with whom Hoti regularly intermarried were Kastrati and the Bekaj brotherhoods of Triesh that did not have "Ban Keqi" as an ancestor.