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

1. third cousin (great-grandchild of a great-grandparent's sibling)

   Synonym: fyrmänning

2. (Finland) fifth cousin (great-great-great-grandchild of a great-great-great-grandparent's sibling)

   Synonym: sexmänning

3. (obsolete) nephew
4. (obsolete) the father's nephew, cousin on the father's side

Declension

Declension of brylling

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	brylling	bryllings
	definite	bryllingen	bryllingens
plural	indefinite	bryllingar	bryllingars
	definite	bryllingarna	bryllingarnas

References

• brylling in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• brylling in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• “I släkten flödar den språkliga kreativiteten”, in Språkbruk‎^[1], Institute for the Languages of Finland, 2018