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[cellio]

Is there a word in English to designate the person who is my husband's brother-in-law? Saying that he is my brother-in-law implies, to me, that either he is my sister's husband or my husband's brother. The person I'm describing is my husband's sister's husband.

I don't need this word often, but the person in question comes up in conversation just often enough to cause me to trip over this too many times.

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[dvarin.livejournal.com]

The steps are of different quality, and makes more sense if you consider married couples to be one pseudo-single person. You're really only going one sibling-link to call both Dani's brother and his wife your whatever-in-law. The in-law part then only implies that traversing one or more marriage-links is necessary. I suppose in cultures that allow multiple-way marriages it becomes possible to traverse 3 or 4 marriage-links and still only one sibling-link to get to an X-in-law.