[Lexicog] Another lexical gap

[David Tuggy]

Spanish consuegros (cf. suegro 'father-in-law'). Similarly my wife's
brother-in-law, married to my sister-in-law (my wife's sister) is my
concuño (cf. cuñado 'brother-in-law'). Yes, these are "holes" in the
English lexicon. The terms should prove useful if we had them, but we don't.

--David Tuggy

Rudolph C Troike wrote:

>
> 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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