svili

== Icelandic == === Etymology === From Old Norse svili, q.v. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈsvɪːlɪ/ Rhymes: -ɪːlɪ === Noun === svili m (genitive singular svila, nominative plural svilar) the husband of one's spouse's sibling; brother-in-law ==== Declension ==== ==== Related terms ==== svilkona == Old Norse == === Etymology === Theoretically from Proto-Germanic *swelijô (“sister's husband”), from Proto-Indo-European *swél-(i)yo-n- or *swé-l-y-ō, though these reconstructions are uncertain. Cognate with Ancient Greek ἀέλιοι (aélioi, “brothers-in-law”) (prefixed with *sm̥-). === Noun === svili brother-in-law ==== Declension ==== This entry needs an inflection-table template. ==== Further reading ==== Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*sweljan-(?)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 498 Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ἀέλιοι”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 24 == Serbo-Croatian == === Noun === svili (Cyrillic spelling свили) dative/locative singular of svila