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Re: Words for family groups

From:dunn patrick w <tb0pwd1@...>
Date:Saturday, May 22, 1999, 21:39
On Sat, 22 May 1999, Fabian wrote:

> >It's not quite the same I know, but Old Norse had the word 'fe=F0gar' > for a man and his son as a team. Like other similar terms, it could be > used in apposition to a name: 'L=E9ifr fe=F0gar' means 'Leif and his > father.'
OE also had such words, including pairs for things like "uncle and nephew", etc. =20