[PW] Names for relatives

[Nina Gilbert]

This question has come to Project Wombat before (are the archives available these days?), and I think we only came up with machetunim for your son- or daughter-in-law's parents, with machetayniste for your child's mother-in-law and (I think) machutin (accent the middle syllable) for your child's father-in-law.

Nina Gilbert
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----- Original Message ----
From: Sue Kamm <suekamm at mindspring.com>
To: list at project-wombat.org
Cc: Drabkin Marian <mmdrabkin at wavecable.net>
Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2007 1:04:59 PM
Subject: Re: [PW] Names for relatives


It's machetunim for the family (one's children's in-laws) and (I think(
 machetuniste for the child's mother-in-law.  I'll send this to my
 Yiddish maven and she can tell you the other terms.  

-----Original Message-----
>From: Janice Sellers <janicemsj at gmail.com>
>Sent: Nov 3, 2007 9:03 AM
>To: list at project-wombat.org
>Subject: Re: [PW] Names for relatives
>
>Yiddish has a term, neither of which I remember, for each set of
>parents, but I have been told that no corresponding terms exist in
>English.
>
>Janice Sellers
>Oakland, California
>
>On 11/3/07, Jocelyn Shaw <redfernshaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This is my patron's question:  "Is there a term that is used to
 describe one
>> set of parents to another in a marraige?  For instnace I have a
 mother and
>> father in law as does my wife.  But, what if anything, do our
 parents call
>> each other?  Parents in law, maybe? "
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