brylling

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish bröþlunger, bryllunger (“father’s niece or nephew”), from broþir (“brother”) + -linger. When the word kusin was borrowed from French, the words syssling and brylling underwent a semantic shift from ”cousin” to ”second cousin” and ”third cousin”, respectively.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²brʏlɪŋ/

Noun

brylling c

1. third cousin (great-grandchild of a great-grandparent's sibling)

   Synonym: fyrmänning

2. (Finland) fifth cousin (great-great-great-grandchild of a great-great-great-grandparent's sibling)

   Synonym: sexmänning

3. (obsolete) nephew
4. (obsolete) the father's nephew, cousin on the father's side

Declension

Declension of brylling
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	brylling	bryllingen	bryllingar	bryllingarna
Genitive	bryllings	bryllingens	bryllingars	bryllingarnas

References

• brylling in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• brylling in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• “I släkten flödar den språkliga kreativiteten”, in Språkbruk‎^[1], Institute for the Languages of Finland, 2018