MOTHER-IN-LAW  岳母

MOTHER of HUSBAND OR WIFE.
Hypernym
  • MOTHERFEMALE PARENT.
    • PARENTRELATIVE who has ENGENDERED OR BIRTH:given birth to a CHILD.
      • RELATIVESHUMANS who HAVE COMMON ANCESTORS.
        • HUMANANIMAL which HAS TWO LEGS AND LACKS FEATHERS....
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The standard word for a mother-in-law is gū 姑, and this concept was of great importance in ritual practice.

Modern Chinese Criteria
岳母

太母

丈母娘

岳母娘

外姑

外母

rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／

  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 2.62

Attributions by syntactic funtion

  • n : 18
  • n(post-N) : 1

Attributions by text

  • 禮記 : 7
  • 春秋左傳 : 5
  • 韓詩外傳 : 3
  • 說苑 : 1
  • 搜神記 : 1
  • 論衡 : 1
  • 韓非子 : 1

Words

姑  gū OC: kaa MC: kuo̝ 19 AttributionsWD

The standard word for a mother-in-law is gū 姑, and this concept was of great importance in ritual practice.

    Syntactic words
  • nmother-in-law
  • n(post-N)N's mother-in-lawDS
大人  dà rén OC: daads njin MC: dɑi ȵin 0 AttributionsWD
    Syntactic words
  • NP[post-N]the mother-in-law, my mother-in-law

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