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Re: Words for relationships that don't have good analogues in English

From:Douglas Koller <laokou@...>
Date:Wednesday, October 17, 2007, 13:21
From: Sai Emrys <sai@...>

> What words for relationships do you have in your conlang(s), or are > there in interesting other languages I might not know, that do not > have good analogues in normal English?
Not lots, but here goes: Mostly along the hetero/homo divide: lebs husband (heterosexual couple) bleths husband (homosexual couple) zhakuts wife (hetero couple) (archaic term)

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