polygyny
‘having more than one wife’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
Gk. polygynēs ‘having many wives’ < polys ‘many’ + gynē ‘woman, wife’ < gyny < gwen < Tamil īṉ
polygyny
English words derived from Tamil īṉ connoting 'beget'
polygyny
‘having more than one wife’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
Gk. polygynēs ‘having many wives’ < polys ‘many’ + gynē ‘woman, wife’ < gyny < gwen < Tamil īṉ
English words derived from Tamil īṉ connoting 'beget'