systkin
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Faroese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]systkin n pl (plurale tantum, genitive plural systkina)
Declension
[edit]n27 | Plural | |
Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | systkin | systkini |
Accusative | systkin | systkini |
Dative | systkjum | systkjunum |
Genitive | systkina | systkinanna |
Derived terms
[edit]Icelandic
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]systkin n pl (plurale tantum)
Declension
[edit]Declension of systkin | ||
---|---|---|
n-s | plural | |
indefinite | definite | |
nominative | systkin | systkinin |
accusative | systkin | systkinin |
dative | systkinum | systkinunum |
genitive | systkina | systkinanna |
Old Norse
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Derived from systir (“sister”) (or more correctly an old adjectival form of it, *swes(t)riga-)[1] with the suffix *-īn(i)a indicating a relation between people as in the words feðgin (“a father and his daughter”) and mǿðgin (“a mother and her son”).[2][3] Unrelated to the English kin.
Noun
[edit]systkin n pl
Declension
[edit] Declension of systkin, (strong a-stem, plural only)
neuter | plural | |
---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | |
nominative | systkin | systkinin |
accusative | systkin | systkinin |
dative | systkinum | systkinunum |
genitive | systkina | systkinanna |
Derived terms
[edit]- systkinabǫrn n pl (“children of one's brother(s) or sister(s); nieces and nephews”)
- systkinadœtr f pl (“daughters of one's brother(s) or sister(s); nieces”)
- systkinadœtrasynir m pl (“sons of daughters of one's brother(s) or sister(s); great-nephews”)
- systkinasonr m (“son of a sister on one's father's side, or son of a brother on one's mother's side”)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “systkin”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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