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From: Jorge LLambias <jorge@PHYAST.PITT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: In-laws
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> +++++>
>  Other interesting combinations are, for example, of type:
>
> tixmamta         m1=t2 m2=t1   x1 is a mother of daughter x2
>
> I don't know whether any natural language has different words for
> mother-of-daughter, mother-of-son, etc.
> >++++++
> I prefer selti'u
>
>         COLIN
>

Actually, {tixmamta} should mean: m1 (m2=t1) t2
                                x1 is a mother of a daughter of x2
to be consistent with the rest of the compound relationships.


{selti'u} doesn't give the sex of the parent, but I guess if needed it can
be expanded to {fetselti'u}

Jorge