systkin

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse systkin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪst͡ʃʰɪn/

Noun

systkin n pl (plurale tantum, genitive plural systkina)

1. siblings

Declension

n27	plural
	indefinite	definite
nominative	systkin	systkini
accusative	systkin	systkini
dative	systkjum	systkjunum
genitive	systkina	systkinanna

Derived terms

• fostursystkin
• hálvsystkin
• leiksystkin
• samsystkin
• spælisystkin
• systkinabarn
• systkinaflokkur

Icelandic

Alternative forms

• systkini

Etymology

From Old Norse systkin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪs(t)kɪːn/

Noun

systkin n pl (plural only, genitive plural systkina)

1. siblings; brother(s) and sister(s)

Declension

Declension of systkin (pl-only neuter)

	plural
	indefinite	definite
nominative	systkin	systkinin
accusative	systkin	systkinin
dative	systkinum	systkinunum
genitive	systkina	systkinanna

Old Norse

Alternative forms

• systkini

Etymology

Derived from systir (“sister”) (or more correctly an old adjectival form of it, *swes(t)riga-) with the suffix *-īn(i)a indicating a relation between people as in the words feðgin (“a father and his daughter”) and mǿðgin (“a mother and her son”). Unrelated to the English kin.

Noun

systkin n pl

1. brothers and sisters; siblings

Declension

Declension of systkin (strong a-stem, plural only)

neuter	plural
	indefinite	definite
nominative	systkin	systkinin
accusative	systkin	systkinin
dative	systkinum	systkinunum
genitive	systkina	systkinanna

Derived terms

• systkinabǫrn n pl (“children of one's brother(s) or sister(s); nieces and nephews”)
• systkinadœtr f pl (“daughters of one's brother(s) or sister(s); nieces”)
• systkinadœtrasynir m pl (“sons of daughters of one's brother(s) or sister(s); great-nephews”)
• systkinasonr m (“son of a sister on one's father's side, or son of a brother on one's mother's side”)

Descendants

• Icelandic: systkin
• Faroese: systkin
• Norwegian Bokmål: søsken
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sysken, søsken
• Old Danish: syzkini, syzkin, syskæn (Jutland)
  • Danish: søskende (plurale tantum)
• Swedish: syskon
• → Scots: sutchkin

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “systkin”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive