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svili

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See also: svilì

Icelandic

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Etymology

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From Old Norse svili, q.v.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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svili m (genitive singular svila, nominative plural svilar)

  1. the husband of one's spouse's sibling; brother-in-law

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Old Norse

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Etymology

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Theoretically from Proto-Germanic *swelijô (sister's husband), from Proto-Indo-European *swél-(i)yo-n- or *swé-l-y, though these reconstructions are uncertain. Cognate with Ancient Greek ἀέλιοι (aélioi, brothers-in-law) (prefixed with *sm̥-).

Noun

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svili

  1. brother-in-law

Declension

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Serbo-Croatian

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Noun

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svili (Cyrillic spelling свили)

  1. dative/locative singular of svila