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Hebrew
ḥōtēn - wife's father
(HALOT 364–365)
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PCS
*ḫatan-
- son-in-law, groom
(Kogan 2011: 236; Kogan 2015: 191)
occasionally also ‘father-in-law’ and ‘brother-in-law’ Connection with the verbal root
ḫtn
‘to circumcise,’ completely isolated in Arabic (Lane 703), is widely accepted (HALOT 364‒365), but difficult to prove (Kogan 2015: 191)