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

On 10/17/07, Sai Emrys <sai@...> wrote:
> 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?
Modern Greek συμπέθερος and συμπεθέρα (symbetheros, symbethera),
literally something like "co-{father,mother}-in-law": the
parent-in-law of your child (or alternatively, the parent of your
son/daugher-in-law).

I thought that was an interesting relationship to have a term for.

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>

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