Talk:brother-husband

RFV discussion: December 2016

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brother-husband

A man who has married his sister (!), from our usual incest fanatic. Google Books hits suggest that "brother-husbands" are actually husbands who are each other's brothers, e.g. where A and B, who are brothers, marry C and D, who are sisters. Equinox ◑ 03:25, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

Wrong idiot. This was created by the Sky-UK IP who's obsessed with deities (especially their genealogies) and magical beings, and who has probably added more crap to Japanese entries than everyone else combined. I'm sure they read something about gods who were siblings and married each other and pulled a term for it out of a certain nether orifice (apparently their main source of lexical information)...

It's really hard to search on this, since "brother" and "husband" quite frequently occur together without being part of the same phrase. Chuck Entz (talk) 04:52, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

We might want to compare its use to that of sister-wife. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 11:00, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

I have added four cites that support the supplied definition. Unlike sister-wife, I find no cites to support other definitions, but then, polyandry is far less common than polygamy. Kiwima (talk) 18:52, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

I might add that there is also support for brother/husband as an alternate form:

But the use of the slash rather than a hyphen makes it seem more like a colocation due to the author's difficulty in deciding on a term for the relationship rather than a true term for the relationship. Kiwima (talk) 19:05, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

I am calling this one Passed RFV — This unsigned comment was added by Kiwima (talk • contribs) at 19:25, 8 April 2017.