单词 | sister son |
释义 | > as lemmassister son sister son n. now archaic a sister's son; a nephew. [Compare Old Frisian swestersune, Middle High German swestersun, Old Icelandic systursonr.] ΚΠ eOE (Kentish) Will of Abba (Sawyer 1482) in N. P. Brooks & S. E. Kelly Charters of Christ Church Canterbury, Pt. 2 (2013) 664 Ðonne ann ic his minra swæstarsuna swælcum se hit geðian wile. OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno 1054 His sunu Osbarn, & his sweostorsuna Sihward..wurdon þær ofslægene. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 4193 Þe oðer wes mire suster sune. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 3525 King arthures soster sone þe king howel was. ?1530 J. Rastell Pastyme of People sig. *Cii Albert..was slayne by his syster sonne. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 10 Dauid of Abirnethie, his sistir sone. a1714 Earl of Cromarty Hist. Family Mackenzie in W. Fraser Earls of Cromartie (1876) II. 490 Monro of Foulls, sister sone to this Johne. 1806 R. Jamieson tr. in Pop. Ballads I. 216 And is he come, thy sister-son, Frae thy father's land to thee? 1955 J. R. R. Tolkien Return of King vi. 255 Fréalaf, Helm's sister-son. 2011 S. Monette & E. Bear Tempering of Men (2012) ii. 21 Perhaps there were sister-sons to stand the family's obligations. < as lemmas |
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