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sisterson

noun

Etymology

From Middle English systerson, sustersone, from Old English sweostorsunu, from Proto-West Germanic *swestersunu, from Proto-Germanic *swestērsunuz, equivalent to sister + son.

  1. inherited from *swestērsunuz✻
  2. inherited from *swestersunu✻
  3. inherited from sweostorsunu
  4. inherited from systerson

Definitions

  1. The son of one's sister

    The son of one's sister; sororal nephew

    • But next year, to conserve the soil, it'll be put in alfalfa, and my sisterson Willy takes care of it then.
    • The Svarfdalers came out there to the coast; among their company were the Thorgrimssons, sistersons of Ljot, and the men of Ljot's household.
    • […] Canon Tiedemann Giese (Polish Gize), a sisterson of the Ferbers Mauritius, Eberhard, and Hildebrand, to publish the pamphlet Floscvlorvm Lvtheranorvm De fide et operibus avēηλoуıкov, […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sisterson. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA