sweostor

== Old English == === Alternative forms === swustor — Mercian swester, suoester, soester — Northumbrian swuster — West Saxon swæstar, swestar, swystor, swystar — Anglian sweoster, swostur, swustur, swystar, swyster === Etymology === From Proto-West Germanic *swester, from Proto-Germanic *swestēr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr. Compare Old Frisian swester, Old Saxon swestar, Old High German swestar, Old Norse systir. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈswe͜os.tor/ Rhymes: -e͜os.tor === Noun === sweostor f (West Saxon) sister The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== sweostorbearn sweostorsunu ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: suster, cyster, cystyr, scyster, sister, sistir, soster, souster, sustir, syster, systir, systyr, swuster (Early Middle English), sussterr (Ormulum), zoster (Kent), sustur (Shropshire) (some forms influenced by Old Norse)English: sister (see there for further descendants)Scots: sister, systerYola: zister