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Faroese
Etymology
From Old Norse systkin.
Pronunciation
Noun
systkin n pl (plurale tantum, genitive plural systkina)
- siblings
Declension
Derived terms
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse systkin.
Pronunciation
Noun
systkin n pl (plural only, genitive plural systkina)
- siblings; brother(s) and sister(s)
Declension
Declension of systkin (pl-only neuter)
Old Norse
Etymology
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
systkin n pl
- brothers and sisters; siblings
Declension
Declension of systkin, (strong a-stem, plural only)
Derived terms
- 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
References
- “systkin”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press