Age-differentiated bifurcate collateral pattern: four terms, distinguished by both relative age and the sex of the connecting person can be glossed as father's elder sister, father's younger sister, mother's elder sister, and mother's younger sister (Murdock's L)
Bifurcate merging pattern: a single term can be glossed as father's sister, maternal aunts being terminologically equated with mother
Generation pattern: special terms are lacking for both maternal and paternal aunts, who are terminologically equated with mother
Lineal pattern: a special single term can be glossed as a?oaunt, applying to both the father's and the mother's sisters and distinguishing them from the mother
Rare pattern similar to the age-differentiated bifurcate collateral pattern : FaElSi, MoElSi, and FaYoSi are distinguished, but MoYoSi is not (Murdock's U)
Simple bifurcate collateral pattern: two special terms, distinguished by the sex of the connecting relative, can be glossed as paternal aunt and maternal aunt
Skewed bifurcate collateral pattern: three special terms distinguished by the sex (mother or father) of the connecting person and also by age relative to that person, can be glossed as, in the case of maternal, aunts, mother's elder sister. mother's younger sister, and father's sister
Speaker-differentiated bifurcate collateral pattern: three special terms, differentiated by the sex of the connecting relative and for paternal aunts also by the sex of the speaker, can be glossed as father's sister (man speaking), father's sister (woman speaking), and mother's sister (Murdock's M)
Speaker-differentiated bifurcate merging pattern: (unique to Sia Pueblo)

Crow pattern: the mirror image of the Omaha pattern, with mother's brother children terminologically equated with relatives of an descending generation, normally with a man's own children and a woman's brother's children, while a father's sister's children are equated with ascending generation, normally with father and father's sister
Eskimo pattern: one or more special terms for first cross-cousins differ from those for siblings, but do not distinguish cross from parallel cousins: Xc = ||c =/ sib
Hawaiian pattern: siblings, cross- and parallel cousins are called by the same term: Xc = ||c = sib
Iroquois pattern: one or more special terms for first cross-cousins differ from those for siblings, parallel cousins, and avuncular and nepotic relatives: sib = ||c =/ Xc
Omaha pattern: the children of a mother's brother and of a father's sister (cross-cousins) are terminologically distinguished from siblings, parallel cousins, and each other but are not designated by special terms. Instead, a mother's brother's children are terminologically equated with relatives of an ascending generation, normally with the mother and her brother, and a father's sister's children are equated with relatives of an descending generation, normally with a man's sister's children and his own children