| 单词 | sister bairn |
| 释义 | > as lemmassister bairn sister bairn n. chiefly Scottish a child of a parent's sister, a cousin; (also, esp. in early use) a child of one's own sister, a nephew or niece. Sc. National Dict. (at Sister) records this compound as still in use in Shetland and Caithness in 1970. [Compare Old Frisian swesterbern, Middle High German swesterbarn, Old Icelandic systurbarn, all in sense ‘sister's child’.] ΚΠ eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 318 Nepotum, sweostorbearna. OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xiv. 146 Seo halige Maria þæs hælendes moder stod wið ða rode..and Iohannes samod, hire swuster bearn. 1590 Inventory Munim. Earl of Crawford 4 Nov. II. 197 in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Sister-barne Sir, parrell nocht sisterbairnis heritage. 1680 in Cloud of Witnesses (1871) 85 The Earl of Mar's mother and I being sister-bairns. a1899 D. Nicolson MS Coll. Caithness Words in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1904) V. 449/1 Sister-bairn[a sister's child; a cousin on the mother's side]. < as lemmas |
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