systkin

From Old Norse systkin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪst͡ʃʰɪn/

systkin n pl (plurale tantum, genitive plural systkina)

1. siblings

• systkini

From Old Norse systkin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪs(t)kɪːn/

systkin n pl (plurale tantum)

1. siblings; brother(s) and sister(s)

• systkini

Derived from systir (“sister”) (or more correctly an old adjectival form of it, *swes(t)riga-)[1] with the suffix *-īn(i)a indicating a relation between people as in the words feðgin (“a father and his daughter”) and mǿðgin (“a mother and her son”).[2][3] Unrelated to the English kin.

systkin n pl

1. brothers and sisters; siblings

• systkinabǫrn n pl (“children of one's brother(s) or sister(s); nieces and nephews”)
• systkinadœtr f pl (“daughters of one's brother(s) or sister(s); nieces”)
• systkinadœtrasynir m pl (“sons of daughters of one's brother(s) or sister(s); great-nephews”)
• systkinasonr m (“son of a sister on one's father's side, or son of a brother on one's mother's side”)

• “systkin”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press