sœur
French
noun
Definitions
- sister
- (Christianity) nun
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French soeur inherited from Old French suer (dry) inherited from Latin soror (sister) inherited from Proto-Italic *swezōr inherited from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr (sister).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*swésōr
Gloss
sister
Concept
Semantic Field
Kinship
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Soroptimist English
- sister English
- sororize English
- soror Latin
- sororicida Latin
- sororicidium Latin
- sororitas Latin
- sorōritās Latin
- sūdāre Latin
- sūdāre, sūdō, sudo Latin
- sūgō, sūgere Latin
- Schwester German
- sorella Italian
- suora Italian
- belle-sœur French
- consœur French
- suer French
- sœurette French
- sor Spanish, Castilian
- ἔορ Ancient Greek
- *swésōr Proto-Indo-European
- soror Portuguese
- *swestēr Proto-Germanic
- स्वसृ Sanskrit
- sistren Middle English
- *sestra Proto-Slavic
- suer Old French
- soră Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- siwe Middle Dutch
- քոյր Old Armenian
- soeu Norman
- soeur Norman
- suer Norman
- xơ Vietnamese
- soeur Middle French
- *swesūr Proto-Celtic
- *swasar- Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *swásā Proto-Indo-Iranian
- sorã Aromanian
- sòrre Occitan
- *swezōr Proto-Italic
- sora Romansh
- sour Romansh
- sûr Friulian
- soru Sicilian
- soreła Venetian
- *swesarā Proto-Albanian
- *s(w)esō Proto-Balto-Slavic
- *swésō Proto-Balto-Slavic
- saur Dalmatian
- seraul Dalmatian
- sè Haitian, Haitian Creole
- ser Mauritian Creole
- sorre Sardinian
- sora Neapolitan
- soror Interlingua
- suèr Franco-Provençal
- *(ṣä)ṣer, *ṣäṣer Proto-Tocharian
- اِسپُسار Khowar
- хор Yagnobi