schwieger-

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German

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Etymology

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Taken out of the clarifying compound Schwiegermutter (“mother-in-law”), itself from Schwieger (“mother-in-law”), from Old High German swigar (“mother-in-law”), from Proto-West Germanic *swegru, from Proto-Germanic *swegrō, from Proto-Indo-European *sweḱrúh₂. Related to Schwager (“brother-in-law”), Schwäher (“father-in-law”). Cognate with Alemannic German schwëcher-.

Prefix

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schwieger-

  1. -in-law

Derived terms

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German terms prefixed with schwieger-
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