(& jāmāta Ja.iv.219) daughter’s husband, son-inlaw Thig.422 (= Thag-a.269 duhitu pati); Ja.ii.63; Ja.v.442.

Vedic jāmātar. Deriv. uncertain. BR. take it as jā + mātar, the builder up of the family, supposing the case where there is no son and the husband goes to live in the wife’s family, a bīna marriage. More likely fr. ldg *gem, to marry. Cp. Gr.γαμέω· γαμβρός, Lat. gener