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womb-brother

noun

Etymology

From womb + brother.

  1. inherited from *bʰréh₂tēr✻ — “brother”
  2. inherited from *brōþēr✻ — “brother”
  3. inherited from *brōþer✻
  4. inherited from brōþor
  5. inherited from broder
  6. compounded as womb-brother — “womb + brother”

Definitions

  1. A brother uterine.

    • Only womb-brothers could look so much alike, and Thamalon had been present at Tamlin's birth.
    • Father to son inheritance is a key feature of patrilineal succession but is often absent from matrilineal systems where a man is normally succeeded by the son of his sister or by his own womb-brother.
    • An Anglican bishop and a Chief Imam could be womb-brothers in Africa.

The neighborhood

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