[Lexicog] Another lexical gap?

[Chaz and Helga Mortensen]

David, there actually is such a word in English: 'out-law', derived 
from 'in-law', and first coined by C. Mortensen in about 1987. For 
example, my sister-in-law's husband is my out-law, if said husband does 
not happen to be my brother in the first place. Unfortunately, it is 
only a cover term for all relationships established through marriage 
that go beyond the in-law level. Suggested spelling includes the hyphen 
to avoid confusion with 'outlaw'.

-Chaz

On Jun 5, 2005, at 6:14 PM, David Tuggy wrote:

> 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


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