brylling

== Swedish == === Etymology === From Old Swedish bröþlunger, bryllunger (“father’s niece or nephew”), from broþir (“brother”) + -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): /²brʏlɪŋ/ === Noun === brylling c third cousin (great-grandchild of a great-grandparent's sibling) Synonym: fyrmänning (Finland) fifth cousin (great-great-great-grandchild of a great-great-great-grandparent's sibling) Synonym: sexmänning (obsolete) nephew (obsolete) the father's nephew, cousin on the father's side ==== Declension ==== === References === “brylling”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish) “brylling”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) “I släkten flödar den språkliga kreativiteten”, in Språkbruk‎[1], Institute for the Languages of Finland, 2018