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ge-sweostren

  • adjective
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Grammar
ge-sweostren, adj.
Of sisters
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  • Geswusterenu beam

    sobrini,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 52, 6. as pl. substantive.
cousins on the mother's side
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  • Gesweosternu

    consobrini ex duabus sororibus,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 134, 19.
  • Gesustrenu

    consobrini,

    i.
      52, 5.
sisters
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  • Twégra bróþor oþþe twégra gesweosterna (swustra, gesweostra , v. ll. ) sunu and dohtor

    duorum fratrum vel duarum sororum jilius et flia,

      Bd. 1. 27 ; Sch. 69, 3.
  • Sceolden hí bión swelce hí wiéren geswysterna (-swystrena,

    v. l. )

    warn, for ðǽm þe hé sceolde beón heofones sunu and hí eorþan,
      Bt. 35, 4 ; S. 98, 32.
  • Be þám men þe wífað on twám geswystrenum

    (qui duas sorores in matrímonium ducit),

    oððe wíf nimð bróður æfter ódrum,
      Ll. Th. ii. 180, 18.
  • Án pund penega hé lǽnde Túne and his geswysternon,

      Cht. Crw. 23, 20.
Etymology
[Cf. O. L. Ger. ge-sustruon sisters, Kl. Nom. Stam. 68.]
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v.  ge-swystren.
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  • ge-sweostren, adj.