The paper presents variant dialectal lexemes for the notions of father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law and brother-in-law (lexemes for relatives by marriage) in the dialects covered by the Slovene linguistic atlas. The lexemes and their distribution are introduced using those included by employing the methods of linguistic geography, too. The main part focuses on the comparison of these dialectal lexemes with the lexemes, included in the Dictionary of Standard Slovene and their stylistic qualifiers in it. An attempt at classification of the criteria for acceptance of dialect words into the standard language (with phonetic and morphological adaptation, of course) is also presented: the standard language accepts mainly those dialect words that have not been taken over from languages in contact, that are as widely spread as possible, or that spring from the centre of
the Slovene language space, but rarely from peripheral dialects.
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