Kinship in ancient Greek: a study of terms for "son-in-law", "brother-in-law" and "father-in-law"

Two affinal kinship terms in the Greek language, gambrós (originally “daughter’s husband” and “sister’s husband”) and pentherós (originally “wife’s father”), present difficulties in their semantics. The discussion about their antecedents in Proto-Indo-European is still open and, internally to Greek,...

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