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(The Words) "Bigamy" and "Polygamy"

de werechick, 2008-marto-19

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werechick (Montri la profilon) 2008-marto-19 04:15:00

I'm not in favor of the practice, but I seek the words for the purpose of bad prose and the translations of even worse one liners.

I would suppose duedzineco would work for bigamy and pliedzineco for polygamy, but I don't know if I would be understood if I used that construction. Is there an existing convention?

RiotNrrd (Montri la profilon) 2008-marto-19 05:19:24

According to the CEED, "bigamy" is "bigamio", and "polygamy" is "poligamio".

Miland (Montri la profilon) 2008-marto-19 08:51:00

Likewise Wells. And both bigamio and poligamio are in PIV 2005.
That said, Werechick's construction seems logical to me, and E-o is supposed to let us form compound words that way.

sergejm (Montri la profilon) 2008-marto-19 09:01:58

werechick:I would suppose duedzineco would work for bigamy and pliedzineco for polygamy
multedzineco for polygamy.
But bigamio and poligamio are better.

multedzinhavulo or multedzinulo or poligamiulo for man, who has many wifes.

mnlg (Montri la profilon) 2008-marto-19 10:11:46

Miland:That said, Werechick's construction seems logical to me
I would perhaps suggest pluredzeco. I will check the PIV as soon as I get home.

Frankouche (Montri la profilon) 2008-marto-19 10:26:44

sergejm:
werechick:I would suppose duedzineco would work for bigamy and pliedzineco for polygamy
multedzineco for polygamy.
But bigamio and poligamio are better.

multedzinhavulo or multedzinulo or poligamiulo for man, who has many wifes.
In Tibetio, a woman can have many men (polyandrie) : multedzeco, pluredzeco ?
These words are more precise.

sergejm (Montri la profilon) 2008-marto-19 10:34:27

mnlg:I would perhaps suggest pluredzeco. I will check the PIV as soon as I get home.
pluredzineco
pluredzeco is having some husbands (polyandry?)

Revo:kromedzino

En pluredzina moro ĉiu plia edzino, kun malpli alta oficiala rango ol la unua edzino
In polygamy every next wife after the first one.

mnlg (Montri la profilon) 2008-marto-19 10:44:23

sergejm:pluredzineco
pluredzeco is having some husbands (polyandry?)
According to my dictionary, polygamy is defined as such:

"the practice or condition of having more than one spouse, esp. wife, at one time."

Therefore I think pluredzeco is still valid (I read it as "plural-marriage-related-entity-quality", not as "plural-husband-quality").

The word "gamos" means "marriage".

erinja (Montri la profilon) 2008-marto-19 17:34:28

Polygamy is having multiple (more than two) spouses. It is the generic term; it doesn't matter whether it's multiple husbands or multiple wives.

polyandry is when a woman has multiple husbands
(poly = many, andros = male)

polygyny is when a man has multiple wives
(poly = many, gyno = female)

eb.eric (Montri la profilon) 2008-marto-19 21:07:36

and polygynandry is a whole group of mates

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