FATHER-IN-LAW  岳父

FATHER of one's HUSBAND OR WIFE.
Hypernym
  • FATHERMALE 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 father-in-law is jiù 舅.

2. Zhàng rén 丈人 is a colloquial term for a father-in-law.

Modern Chinese Criteria
岳父

岳丈

岳翁

丈人

丈老

外舅

外父

婦公

婦翁

泰山

冰翁

丈人爸

岳

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. 2.61

Words

舅  jiù OC: ɡuʔ MC: gɨu 6 Attributions

The standard word for a father-in-law is jiù 舅.

    Syntactic words
  • nfather-in-law
丈人  zhàng rén OC: daŋʔ njin MC: ɖi̯ɐŋ ȵin 2 Attributions

Zhàng rén 丈人 is a colloquial term for a father-in-law.

    Syntactic words
  • NPfather-in-law
婦翁  fù wēng OC: buʔ qlooŋ MC: bɨu ʔuŋ 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • NP(post-N)father-in-law (of a man)

Existing SW for

Here are Syntactic Words already defined in the database: