svägerska

Swedish

Swedish kinship terms

Etymology

From Old Swedish svæghirska, from Middle Low German swegersche.

Noun

svägerska c

1. a sister-in-law; a sister of someone's spouse

Declension

Declension of svägerska

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	svägerska	svägerskas
	definite	svägerskan	svägerskans
plural	indefinite	svägerskor	svägerskors
	definite	svägerskorna	svägerskornas

Derived terms

• buksvägerska

See also

• svåger (“brother-in-law”)
• svärdotter (“daughter-in-law”)
• svärfar (“father-in-law”)
• svärförälder (“parent-in-law”)
• svärmor (“mother-in-law”)
• svärson (“son-in-law”)

References

• “svägerska”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “svägerska”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “svägerska”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• svägerska in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)