Gnomish
bedhren
noun. brother in law, kinsman by marriage
Cognates
- Eq. vestaner “?(bride)groom”
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bedhren
noun. brother in law, kinsman by marriage
Cognates
- Eq. vestaner “?(bride)groom”
The word G. bedhren “brother in law, kinsman by marriage” appeared in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s as a combination of the early root ᴱ√Beđ “wed” and G. ren(d) “male relative” (GL/22). It had a variant G. gadren where the initial element was G. gad “joint, link” (GL/36).
Neo-Sindarin: I would adapt this word as ᴺS. bethren for purposes of Neo-Sindarin, updating the initial element to my preferred root for marriage ᴹ√BES “wed” with sr becoming thr in Sindarin.