brorson

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish broþor son, from Old East Norse ᛒᚱᚢᚦᚢᚱ᛬ᛋᚢᚾ (bruþur:sun), equivalent to bror +‎ son.

Noun

brorson c

1. fraternal nephew

   Hypernyms: brorsbarn, nevö

Declension

Declension of brorson

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	brorson	brorsons
	definite	brorsonen	brorsonens
plural	indefinite	brorsöner	brorsöners
	definite	brorsönerna	brorsönernas

References

• “brorson”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• Inscription/entry Vg 156 in the RuneS-Database ot the research project Runic Writing in the Germanic Languages (RuneS) of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, 2026.