If a person's meat or drink were to […] come against his breath, they instantly cry out, Deisheal! which is an ejaculation praying that it may go the right way.

A similar correlation is evident in the physical layout of the Kithara II, which consists of twelve banks of six strings, each bank tuned to a specific, although incomplete, otonality or utonality.

Och, blood an ouns! what can the matter be !

Now for some rather more human terminology! Nodes can have mothers, daughters, and sisters (though interestingly the corresponding relations are known as fathers, sons, and brothers in Italian; I shall leave it to social anthropologists and psychologists to work out what the hidden significance of this cross-cultural transvestism may be!).