[PW] Names for relatives

[Marian Drabkin]

Yes, dialect differences at work here.  You say machetuniste, we said 
mechutayniste.  I've heard still other ways of saying it, but it's all the 
same word.  I seem to remember that the male equivalent of a mechutayniste 
was a mechutin, but I'd go to the YIVO Institute in NYC to find that out for 
sure..

Marian Drabkin

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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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