svainė

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Lithuanian

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Etymology

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Feminine form of sváinis (brother-in-law). Cognate with Latvian svaine (sister-in-law).[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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sváinė f (plural sváinės, masculine sváinis) stress pattern 1[2]

  1. sister-in-law

Declension

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References

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  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “svainis”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 437
  2. ^ svainė”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024