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Is there an English equivelent of the term “mechuten”/”machetainesta”? (i.e. father/mother of your child’s spouse)
Shver/Shvigger – Father/Mother-in-law
What are the terms for son/daughter-in-law?
Brother/sister-in-law?
What else am I missing?
My mother always thought my 2-year-old daughter thought she owned the world, so she starting calling her the Machatainista.
Aidim is something…just not sure what 🙂
BTW, in Yeshivish, it is proper to say Shmerel is an Uncle by Berel.
Uncle – Feter
Aunt – Tante
Son in law- eidem
Daughter in law- shneer
FIL- shver
MIL- shvigger
Bro in law- shvugger
Sis in law- shvegerin
Btw I charge per hour.
smartcookie: you must be chassidesh. We Litvacks pronounce Sis-IL shnur.
In EY (and I gather Hungary)an aunt is a muma
In Hungarian an Uncle is Batchi. As in Dezei Batchi.
Hello99- Yes I’m Chassidish, and all litvaks I know, never heard of the yiddish word for daughter in law, let alone pronounce it!
Modern Yeshivish – Learns in Kolel full-time but wants a
Lexus, a house i Lakewood and Florida vacations
Volvie
I’m opening a thread on Hungarian.
We Litvacks pronounce Sis-IL shnur. SIL = shvegerin however the Litvaks pronounce it
shnur = DIL
My father’s family is definitely not Hungarian but from Poland and they called their aunts mooma. My mother’s family from Russia called their aunts chicha.
DrrcheiNoam:
Why should there be a Goyish Term for Mechutan “spouse’s parents”
Susch relationship dpes not exist in their culture.
are you askink about yinglish “Judeo-English”? You have Mechutan.
…Its called Yeshivish Reid Yeshiveish Shprach
Yeshiveishe Reid Yeshivish Shprach
I hereby nominate d a as poet laureate of the CR
Uh, “d a”,please let’s not plagiarize. Your post should be italicized and attributed to R’ Abie Rottenberg,who has written many wonderful songs…
D a likely assumed we all knew it was a song give him a break!
Chol Hamoed Guest,
You said, “Why should there be a Goyish Term for mechutan ‘spouse’s parents’? Such relationship dpes not exist in their culture.”
I don’t understand your question.
“Mechutan” is not your spouse’s parents. The term for THAT is your “in-laws.”
Your “mechutanim,” however, are the parents of your child’s spouse.
There indeed is no term for that in “goyish culture.”
Incidentally, I found this great website with all sorts of explanations of goyish words I wanted to share with you:
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