svåger

Swedish

Swedish kinship terms

Etymology

• The SAOB dictionary states that this is inherited from Old Swedish svāgher, swoger.
• From Middle Low German swāger, from Old Saxon *swāgar, from Proto-Germanic *swēgraz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱuros (“husband's father”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsvoːɡər/

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Noun

svåger c

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

Usage notes

• The prefix svär- in svärfar and svärmor derives from svåger.

Declension

Declension of svåger

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	svåger	svågers
	definite	svågern	svågerns
plural	indefinite	svågrar	svågrars
	definite	svågrarna	svågrarnas

Hypernyms

• måg

Derived terms

• buksvåger
• svågerlag
• svågerpolitik
• svågerskap

See also

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

References

• “svåger”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “svåger”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “svåger”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)