This week’s weird word from The Meaning of Tingo is areodjarekput, which is an Inuit word that means “to exchange wives for a few days only”.
Naturally, as author Adam Jacot de Boinod points out at his blog, this word raises the question: How exactly does this arrangement work? And at what point does areodjarekput cease to be areodjarekput and begin to be longer-term endeavor, which would require a new word?
I suppose one would have to travel north and ask some Inuit folks to find out…