brylling
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish bröþlunger, bryllunger (“father’s niece or nephew”), from broþir (“brother”) + -linger. When the word kusin was borrowed from French, the words syssling and brylling underwent a semantic shift from ”cousin” to ”second cousin” and ”third cousin”, respectively.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²brʏlɪŋ/
Noun
brylling c
- third cousin (great-grandchild of a great-grandparent's sibling)
- Synonym: fyrmänning
- (Finland) fifth cousin (great-great-great-grandchild of a great-great-great-grandparent's sibling)
- Synonym: sexmänning
- (obsolete) nephew
- (obsolete) the father's nephew, cousin on the father's side
Declension
| Declension of brylling | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | brylling | bryllingen | bryllingar | bryllingarna |
| Genitive | bryllings | bryllingens | bryllingars | bryllingarnas |
References
- brylling in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- brylling in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- “I släkten flödar den språkliga kreativiteten”, in Språkbruk, Institute for the Languages of Finland, 2018