[Lexicog] Another lexical gap

[David Tuggy]

You are right about consuegros there. My wife and I would call our
parents, who are consuegros to each other, simply "our parents", English
or Spanish.

--David Tuggy

Kenneth C. Hill wrote:

> It's interesting that the Spanish term consuegros, which literally means
> co-parents-in-law, does not refer to the relationship between the married
> couple and their collective parents but rather to the two sets of parents
> in their relation to each other. My consuegros are the parents of my
> child's spouse, not the set of my parents plus my spouse's parents.
> Consuegros used in a collective sense refers to both sets of parents, but
> not from the point of view of the married couple. I believe it is this
> latter sense that DeCamp was referring to as the lexical gap. This is as I
> understand it; perhaps someone who knows Spanish better can refine this.
>
> --Ken
>
> --- Rudolph C Troike <rtroike at u.arizona.edu> 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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