Etymology

sisterson

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Today it means: The son of one's sister; sororal nephew Full definition →

Middle English systerson ← Old English sweostorsunu ← Proto-West Germanic *swestersunu
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*swestērsunuz
  2. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*swestersunu
  3. Old English · inherited fromsweostorsunu
  4. Middle English · inherited fromsysterson
  5. English todaysisterson

From Middle English systerson, sustersone, from Old English sweostorsunu, from Proto-West Germanic *swestersunu, from Proto-Germanic *swestērsunuz, equivalent to sister + son.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.