systkin

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Faroese

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Etymology

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From Old Norse systkin.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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systkin n pl (plurale tantum, genitive plural systkina)

  1. siblings

Declension

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n27 Plural
Indefinite Definite
Nominative systkin systkini
Accusative systkin systkini
Dative systkjum systkjunum
Genitive systkina systkinanna

Derived terms

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Icelandic

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Norse systkin.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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systkin n pl (plurale tantum)

  1. siblings; brother(s) and sister(s)

Declension

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Old Norse

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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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

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systkin n pl

  1. brothers and sisters; siblings

Declension

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Derived terms

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  • 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

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References

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  • systkin”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press