sisterson
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The son of one's sister; sororal nephew
Example Sentences
- "But next year, to conserve the soil, it'll be put in alfalfa, and my sisterson Willy takes care of it then."
- "The Svarfdalers came out there to the coast; among their company were the Thorgrimssons, sistersons of Ljot, and the men of Ljot's household."
- "[…] Canon Tiedemann Giese (Polish Gize), a sisterson of the Ferbers Mauritius, Eberhard, and Hildebrand, to publish the pamphlet Floscvlorvm Lvtheranorvm De fide et operibus avēηλoуıкov, […]"
- "Slit nostrils and gouged eyes ensured that Apius's exiled sister-sons need not be considered by the Senators."
- "But the brothers and sons of Taminy were angry that Taminy was dead. And the sistersons of Taminy were angry, too."
Etymology
From Middle English systerson, sustersone, from Old English sweostorsunu, from Proto-West Germanic *swestersunu, from Proto-Germanic *swestērsunuz, equivalent to sister + son.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: systerson, sweostorsunu, *swestersunu, *swestērsunuz
Inflected Forms
sistersons (plural)
sister-son (alternative)