sifjar
Icelandic edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sifjar f pl (plurale tantum)
- family relations
Declension edit
declension of sifjar
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Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
From the plural of Proto-Germanic *sibjō. Cognate with Old English sibb (“relationship; peace”).
Noun edit
sifjar f pl
- a kinship; an affinity connection by marriage
Derived terms edit
- sifjaspell (“kinship defilement; incest”)
- spilla sifjum (“defile kinship; commit incest”)
References edit
- “sifjar”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press