Family - Women/Men/Kids Fast Facts, Last Updated:09/09/2010 Specific distinctions vary among Western societies. Forinstance, in French, the prefix beau- or belle- isused for both "-in-law" and "step-"; in other words, one'sbelle-soeur could be the sister of one's spouse, the wife ofone's sibling, the wife of one's spouse's sibling, or the daughterof one's parent's spouse. In Spanish, each of the roles thatEnglish creates with the suffix "-in-law" has a different word(suegros- parents-in-law, yerno-son-in-law,nuera-daughter-in-law, cuņados-siblings-in-law), butthere is a suffix -astro or -astra that is equivalentto "step-". |