levir
English
noun
Definitions
- A husband's brother.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin levir (brother-in-law, husbands brother, a husband's brother).
Origin
Latin
levir
Gloss
brother-in-law, husbands brother, a husband's brother
Concept
Semantic Field
Kinship
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- leviratical English
- levir Latin
- δᾱήρ Ancient Greek
- *daiwēr Proto-Italic