suster
English
Noun
suster (plural susters)
- (African-American Vernacular) Pronunciation spelling of sister.
- 2014 March 1, Udine C Fontenot Powel, Is This Time Forever?, page 247:
- Tigger turns to me and says “Mommy, that was my brudder and suster!”
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Alternative forms
- sustah
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch zuster, from Middle Dutch suster, from Old Dutch swester, from Proto-Germanic *swestēr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sœstər/
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Noun
suster (plural susters)
- sister
- Synonym: sus
Coordinate terms
- broer
Derived terms
- sus
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch zuster (“sister, nun, nurse”), from Middle Dutch suster, from Old Dutch swester, from Proto-Germanic *swestēr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sus.tər/
Noun
sustêr (plural suster-suster, first-person possessive susterku, second-person possessive sustermu, third-person possessive susternya)
- nun
- Synonym: biarawati
- (colloquial) nurse (female)
- Synonyms: juru rawat, ners, perawat
Derived terms
- susteran
Further reading
- “suster” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch swester, from Proto-Germanic *swestēr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.
Noun
suster f
- sister
- sister, nun
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Dutch: zuster
- Afrikaans: suster
- Berbice Creole Dutch: sosro, sosoro
- Skepi Creole Dutch: soster
- → Caribbean Hindustani: sester
- → Caribbean Javanese: soster, sester
- → Indonesian: suster
- → Saramaccan: soosútu
- Limburgish: zöster
Further reading
- “suster”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “suster (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
Middle English
Alternative forms
- cyster, cystyr, scyster, sister, sistir, soster, souster, sustir, syster, systir, systyr
- swuster (early)
- sussterr (Ormulum)
- zoster (Kent)
Etymology
From Old English sweostor, swustor, sweoster, in turn from Proto-West Germanic *swester, from Proto-Germanic *swestēr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr. Some forms are influenced by Old Norse systir.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsustər/, /ˈsistər/
- (Early ME) IPA(key): /ˈswustər/
- (Southern ME) IPA(key): /ˈzustər/, /ˈzistər/
Noun
suster (plural sustren or sustres or (rare) suster, genitive sustres or suster)
- A sister or step-sister; a female sibling.
- A (Christian) woman (i.e. as a "sister in life/Christ")
- A nun, anchoress; a woman living a religious lifestyle.
- c. 1225, “Introduction”, in Ancrene Ƿiſſe (MS. Corpus Christi 402), Herefordshire, published c. 1235, folio 1, verso; republished at Cambridge: Parker Library on the Web, January 2018:
- Ant ȝe mine leoue ſuſtren habbeð moni dei icrauet on me efter riƿle
- And you, my beloved sisters, have asked me for a rule many times.
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- (nautical) A catch to secure cords at sea.
Related terms
- susterhede
- suster-in-lawe
Descendants
- English: sister
- → Gulf Arabic: سِسْتَر (sistar, “female nurse”)
- → Japanese: シスター (shisutā)
- → Korean: 시스터 (siseuteo)
- Scots: sister, syster
- Yola: zister
References
- “suster, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-12.
Portuguese
Etymology
Altered from Old Portuguese sostẽer, from Latin sustinēre (“to sustain”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /susˈte(ʁ)/ [susˈte(h)]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /susˈte(ɾ)/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /suʃˈte(ʁ)/ [suʃˈte(χ)]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /susˈte(ɻ)/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /suʃˈteɾ/
- Hyphenation: sus‧ter
Verb
suster (first-person singular present sustenho, first-person singular preterite sustive, past participle sustido)
- to support (to keep from falling)
- Synonyms: apoiar, suportar, sustentar
- to sustain (to provide for or nourish something)
- Synonyms: alimentar, nutrir, tratar
- to detain (to keep (someone) from proceeding)
- Synonyms: conter, deter, parar
- to contain; to enclose
- Synonym: restringir
Conjugation
| Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First-person (eu) | Second-person (tu) | Third-person (ele / ela / você) | First-person (nós) | Second-person (vós) | Third-person (eles / elas / vocês) | |
| Infinitive | ||||||
| Impersonal | suster | |||||
| Personal | suster | susteres | suster | sustermos | susterdes | susterem |
| Gerund | ||||||
| sustendo | ||||||
| Past participle | ||||||
| Masculine | sustido | sustidos | ||||
| Feminine | sustida | sustidas | ||||
| Indicative | ||||||
| Present | sustenho | susténs | sustém | sustemos | sustendes | sustêm |
| Imperfect | sustinha | sustinhas | sustinha | sustínhamos | sustínheis | sustinham |
| Preterite | sustive | sustiveste | susteve | sustivemos | sustivestes | sustiveram |
| Pluperfect | sustivera | sustiveras | sustivera | sustivéramos | sustivéreis | sustiveram |
| Future | susterei | susterás | susterá | susteremos | sustereis | susterão |
| Conditional | ||||||
| susteria | susterias | susteria | susteríamos | susteríeis | susteriam | |
| Subjunctive | ||||||
| Present | sustenha | sustenhas | sustenha | sustenhamos | sustenhais | sustenham |
| Imperfect | sustivesse | sustivesses | sustivesse | sustivéssemos | sustivésseis | sustivessem |
| Future | sustiver | sustiveres | sustiver | sustivermos | sustiverdes | sustiverem |
| Imperative | ||||||
| Affirmative | sustém | sustenha | sustenhamos | sustende | sustenham | |
| Negative (não) | não sustenhas | não sustenha | não sustenhamos | não sustenhais | não sustenham | |
Related terms
- sustedor
- sustentar
- sustento
- sutiã
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian swester, from Proto-Germanic *swestēr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.
Noun
suster c (plural susters, diminutive susterke)
- sister
- Coordinate term: broer
Further reading
- “suster”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011