syssling

Swedish

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²sʏslɪŋ/

Noun

syssling c

  1. second cousin (grandchild of a grandparent’s sibling)
    Synonyms: tremänning, nästkusin, småkusin, A-kusin
  2. (Finland) third cousin (great-grandchild of a great-grandparent’s sibling)
    Synonyms: brylling, fyrmänning, B-kusin
  3. (obsolete) niece
  4. (obsolete) the mother's niece, cousin on the mother's side

Declension

Declension of syssling
nominative genitive
singular indefinite syssling sysslings
definite sysslingen sysslingens
plural indefinite sysslingar sysslingars
definite sysslingarna sysslingarnas

References

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