suster
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suster (plural susters)
- (African-American Vernacular) Pronunciation spelling of sister.
- 2014 March, Udine C Fontenot Powel, Is This Time Forever?[1], page 247:
- Tigger turns to me and says “Mommy, that was my brudder and suster!”
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Afrikaans edit
Etymology edit
From Dutch zuster, from Middle Dutch suster, from Old Dutch swester, from Proto-Germanic *swestēr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.
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suster (plural susters)
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Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
From Dutch zuster (“sister, nun, nurse”), from Middle Dutch suster, from Old Dutch swester, from Proto-Germanic *swestēr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.
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Noun edit
sustêr (plural suster-suster, first-person possessive susterku, second-person possessive sustermu, third-person possessive susternya)
- nun
- Synonym: biarawati
- (colloquial) nurse (female)
- Synonyms: juru rawat, ners, perawat
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Further reading edit
- “suster” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Middle Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From Old Dutch swester, from Proto-Germanic *swestēr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.
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suster f
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Further reading edit
- “suster”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “suster (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
Middle English edit
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- cyster, cystyr, scyster, sister, sistir, soster, souster, sustir, syster, systir, systyr
- swuster (Early Middle English)
- sussterr (Ormulum)
- zoster (Kent)
Etymology edit
From Old English sweostor, swustor, sweoster, in turn from Proto-West Germanic *swester, from Proto-Germanic *swestēr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr. Some forms are influenced by Old Norse systir.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈsustər/, /ˈsistər/
- (Early ME) IPA(key): /ˈswustər/
- (Southern ME) IPA(key): /ˈzustər/, /ˈzistər/
Noun edit
suster (plural sustren or sustres or (rare) suster, genitive sustres or suster)
- A sister or step-sister; a female sibling.
- A (Christian) woman (i.e. as a "sister in life/Christ")
- A nun, anchoress; a woman living a religious lifestyle.
- c. 1225, “Introduction”, in Ancrene Ƿiſſe (MS. Corpus Christi 402)[2], Herefordshire, published c. 1235, folio 1, verso; republished at Cambridge: Parker Library on the Web, 2018 January:
- Ant ȝe mine leoue ſuſtren habbeð moni dei icrauet on me efter riƿle
- And you, my beloved sisters, have asked me for a rule many times.
- (nautical) A catch to secure cords at sea.
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References edit
- “suster, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-12.
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Altered from Old Galician-Portuguese sostẽer, from Latin sustinēre (“to sustain”).
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- Hyphenation: sus‧ter
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suster (first-person singular present sustenho, first-person singular preterite sustive, past participle sustido)
- to support (to keep from falling)
- to sustain (to provide for or nourish something)
- to detain (to keep (someone) from proceeding)
- to contain; to enclose
- Synonym: restringir
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West Frisian edit
Etymology edit
From Old Frisian swester, from Proto-Germanic *swestēr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.
Noun edit
suster c (plural susters, diminutive susterke)
Further reading edit
- “suster”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011