svili
See also: svilì
Icelandic edit
Etymology edit
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Noun edit
svili m (genitive singular svila, nominative plural svilar)
- the husband of one's spouse's sibling; brother-in-law
Declension edit
declension of svili
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Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
Theoretically from Proto-Germanic *swelijô (“sister's husband”), from Proto-Indo-European *swél-(i)yo-n- or *swé-l-y-ō, though these reconstructions are uncertain. Cognate with Ancient Greek ἀέλιοι (aélioi, “brothers-in-law”) (prefixed with *sm̥-).
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svili
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References edit
- Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*sweljan-(?)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 498
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἀέλιοι”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 24
Serbo-Croatian edit
Noun edit
svili (Cyrillic spelling свили)