Co brother

Co brother

Co-brother is a term popularcite news
url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/2001/08/14/stories/13140376.htm
publisher=The Hindu
title=Know Your English (regular column)
date=2001-08-14
] in several parts of Southern India but is mostly unknown elsewhere. A co-brother is one's wife's sister's husband. Mainstream English has no word to describe such kinship, however the term brother-in-law is frequently used.

This relationship is often referred to as co-brother-in-law, as well.

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