exogamy

exogamy

English

Etymology

From exo- +‎ -gamy. The term was coined by John Ferguson McLennan in his Studies in Ancient History, page 25.[1]

Noun

exogamy (countable and uncountable, plural exogamies)

1. marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than one's own as required by custom or law

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:intermarriage

   Antonyms: endogamy; see also Thesaurus:intermarriage

2. (biology) the fusion of two unrelated gametes

   Antonym: endogamy

Related terms

• exogamous

Translations

marriage

Arabic: تَزَاوُج خَارِجِيّ‎ m (tazāwuj ḵārijiyy) Armenian: էկզոգամիա (hy) (ēkzogamia), տարամուսնություն (hy) (taramusnutʿyun) Bulgarian: екзогамия (bg) f (ekzogamija) Catalan: exogàmia f Czech: exogamie f Danish: exogami c Dutch: exogamie (nl) f Finnish: eksogamia (fi) French: exogamie (fr) f German: Exogamie (de) f Greek: εξωγαμία (el) f (exogamía) Hungarian: exogámia (hu) Italian: esogamia (it) f Norwegian: Bokmål: exogami m Persian: برون‌همسری‎ Polish: egzogamia f Portuguese: exogamia (pt) f Romanian: exogamie (ro) f Russian: экзога́мия (ru) f (ekzogámija) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: егзога̀мија f Roman: egzogàmija (sh) f Spanish: exogamia f Swedish: exogami c Turkish: ekzogami Ukrainian: екзогамія f (ekzohamija)

See also

• intermarriage

References

1. J. D. Unwin (1934) Sex and Culture‎, →ISBN, archived from [ the original] on 2014-3-25, endnote 18