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svoger.

brother-in-law (the brother of one's spouse, husband of one's sibling or husband of one's spouse's sibling)

6 characters2 syllables approx.Dansk language

Meaning & usage

noun/svɔːˀvər/[ˈsʋ̥ɔwˀɐ]/svɔvˀər/[ˈsʋ̥ɒwˀɐ]
  1. brother-in-law (the brother of one's spouse, husband of one's sibling or husband of one's spouse's sibling)

    common-gender
Where this word comes from

From Middle Low German swāger, from Proto-Germanic *swēgraz (“husband's brother”), cognate with German Schwager, Dutch zwager. Swedish svåger is also borrowed from Low German. The word goes back to Proto-Indo-European *swēḱurós (“husband's brother”), related to *swéḱuros (“father-in-law”) (German Schwäher, Latin socer) and *sweḱrúh₂ (“mother-in-law”) (German Schwieger, Latin socrus).

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