svåger
Swedish
/ˈsvoːɡər/
noun
Definitions
- a brother-in-law; a brother of someone's spouse
Etymology
Derived from Middle Low German swāger derived from Old Saxon *swāgar derived from Proto-Germanic *swēgraz (husband's brother) derived from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱuros (husband's father, father-in-law).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*swéḱuros
Gloss
husband's father, father-in-law
Concept
Semantic Field
Kinship
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- swager English
- suoveri Finnish
- socerum Latin
- socerum, socer Latin
- socrum Latin
- ἑκυρός Ancient Greek
- *swéḱuros Proto-Indo-European
- *swēḱurós Proto-Indo-European
- *swehuraz Proto-Germanic
- *swēgraz Proto-Germanic
- श्वशुर Sanskrit
- svoger Danish
- *svekrъ Proto-Slavic
- suāgur Old High German
- swāgur Old High German
- *swāgar Old Dutch
- swāger Middle Low German
- *swáćuras Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *swāgar Old Saxon
- swagher Old Swedish
- *swekuros Proto-Italic