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syssling.

second cousin (grandchild of a grandparent’s sibling)

8 characters2 syllables approx.Svenska language

Meaning & usage

noun/²sʏslɪŋ/

  1. second cousin (grandchild of a grandparent’s sibling)

    common-gender

  2. third cousin (great-grandchild of a great-grandparent’s sibling)

    Finland · common-gender

  3. niece

    common-gender · obsolete

  4. the mother's niece, cousin on the mother's side

    common-gender · obsolete
Where this word comes from

From Old Swedish systlinger, systlunger (“mother’s niece or nephew”), from syster (“sister”) + -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.

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