Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Feb 19, 2006 07:54
18 yrs ago
Chinese term
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赘夫
Chinese to English
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Law (general)
赘夫以妻之住所为住所。This is part of the civil law of Taiwan. Of course we all know that 赘夫 is a husband who goes to live in his wife's house instead of the other way around. But can we give 赘夫 a reasonable translation instead of explanation?
Proposed translations
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| 3 +3 | uxorilocal husband |
Xiaoping Fu
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| 4 | zhuifu (a man who marries into and live with wife's family). |
Ray Luo
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| 3 | FYI |
Naikei Wong
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Change log
Feb 19, 2006 08:21: billychang changed "Language pair" from "English to Chinese" to "Chinese to English"
Proposed translations
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Xiaoping Fu
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Chinese term (edited):
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uxorilocal husband
这是人类学用来描述叫原始社会家庭制度的，不是可否借用？
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Note added at 1 hr (2006-02-19 09:50:37 GMT)
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找到一个用例，出自华盛顿大学的一位学者，讲的是中国的家庭制度，可资佐证。
http://faculty.washington.edu/stevehar/PPP.html
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Note added at 1 hr (2006-02-19 09:50:37 GMT)
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找到一个用例，出自华盛顿大学的一位学者，讲的是中国的家庭制度，可资佐证。
http://faculty.washington.edu/stevehar/PPP.html
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Chinese term (edited):
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zhuifu (a man who marries into and live with wife's family).
zhuifu (a man who marries into and live with wife's family).
入赘：marry into and live with wife's family.
入赘：marry into and live with wife's family.
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Naikei Wong
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Chinese term (edited):
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FYI
Southern Exposure: Modern Japanese Literature From Okinawa
... and in Matayoshi Eiki's "Fortunes by the Sea" an "adopted" husband (married into his wife's family), dissatisfied with life as an idle house-husband, ...
dannyreviews.com/h/Okinawa_Literature.html - 7k -
A more conventional English rendition would be “a male adopted heir”, though in Roman times, such heirs weren't usually married into the adopting family (but simply became the adopted son).
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Note added at 26 mins (2006-02-19 08:20:30 GMT)
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Consider:
“a male adopted heir married into the adopting family”
Obviously, “adopted husband” is more current in usage in Japan (I know one such family, and the husband is actually a successful lawayer!)
The Dream Of Akinosuke
We have decided that you shall become the adopted husband of Our only daughter ... Now when the legal period of mourning was over, there came to Raishu, ...
www.sacred-texts.com/shi/kwaidan/kwai15.htm - 13k -
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Note added at 2 hrs (2006-02-19 10:06:07 GMT)
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right, a husband married into his wife's family doesn't necessarily becomes the heir, but it happens.
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Note added at 2 hrs (2006-02-19 10:06:28 GMT)
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correction: become the heir
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