 When they had been freed they were "lautni" (male) or "lautnitha" (female), freed men or women, who were closely connected to the family and were clients of it in return for service and respect.Of the several formal kinship classifications, the Etruscan is most like the Hawaiian, which distinguishes sex and generation, but otherwise lumps persons in those classes together.The lack of a sister does not fit; however, construction of the Etruscan dictionary is still in progress.