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December 2, 2005

Should you need to swap wives in northern climes…

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…

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