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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/svekrъ

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *sweśuros, from Proto-Indo-European *sweḱuros. Cognate with Lithuanian šẽšuras, Ancient Greek ἑκυρός (hekurós), Latin socer, Proto-Germanic *swehuraz, Sanskrit श्वशुर (śváśura).

Noun

*svekrъ m

woman's father-in-law (husband's father)

See also

Parents: *otъ/*otьcь + *mati
- of wife: *tьstь + *tьšča
- of husband: *svekrъ + *svekry

Siblings: *bratrъ, *sestra
- of wife: *šurь, *svěstь/*svьstь
- of husband: *děverь, *zъly
- of father: *strъjь, ?
- of mother: *ujь, ?

Spouse: *žena, *mǫžь
- of child: *snъxa, *zętь
- of husband's brother: *ętry

Children: *synъ, *dъťi
- of child: *vъnukъ, ?
- of sibling: *netьjь, *neti/*nestera

Nursery words: *tata, *mama, *dada, *teta, *nana, *nena, *dědъ, *baba, *lola, *lelja
Unsorted: *ova (“grandmother”), *sěmьja

Descendants

East Slavic

Old East Slavic: свекръ (svekrŭ)

Belarusian: свёкар (svjókar)
Russian: свёкор (svjókor)
Ukrainian: све́кор (svékor)

South Slavic

Old Church Slavonic: свекръ (svekrŭ)
Bulgarian: све́кър (svékǎr)
Macedonian: свекор (svekor)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: свѐкар
Latin: svèkar

Slovene: svẹ́kər (tonal orthography)

West Slavic

Polish: świekr
Czech: svekr
Slovak: svokor

References

Derksen, Rick (2008), “*svekrъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 475
Vasmer (Fasmer), Max (Maks) (1964–1973), “свёкор”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačóv Oleg, Moscow: Progress

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