schwieger-

German

Etymology

Taken out of the clarifying compound Schwiegermutter (“mother-in-law”), itself from Schwieger (“mother-in-law”), from Old High German swigar (“mother-in-law”), from Proto-West Germanic *swegru, from Proto-Germanic *swegrō, from Proto-Indo-European *sweḱrúh₂. Related to Schwager (“brother-in-law”), Schwäher (“father-in-law”). Cognate with Alemannic German schwëcher-.

Prefix

schwieger-

1. -in-law

Derived terms

German terms prefixed with schwieger-