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svili

See also: svilì

Icelandic

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Etymology

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From Old Norse svili, q.v.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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svili m (genitive singular svila, nominative plural svilar)

  1. the husband of one's spouse's sibling; brother-in-law

Declension

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    Declension of svili
m-w1 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative svili svilinn svilar svilarnir
accusative svila svilann svila svilana
dative svila svilanum svilum svilunum
genitive svila svilans svila svilanna
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Old Norse

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Etymology

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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-).

Noun

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svili

  1. brother-in-law

Declension

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References

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  • 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

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Noun

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svili (Cyrillic spelling свили)

  1. dative/locative singular of svila
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