[Lexicog] Another lexical gap

[Rudolph C Troike]

The discussion of the lack of a term in English for a parent bereft of a
child reminds me that my late colleague David DeCamp used to say that he
knew of no language that had a single term for the two sets of parents
of a married couple (i.e., co-parents-in-law). Obviously from this
explication, English has the morphological and lexical resources to
construct an interpretable term, but there is no common term in use for
the joint estate.

	Rudy Troike




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