Systir
Old Norse Dictionary - systir
Meaning of Old Norse word "systir"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
Old Norse word systir can mean:systir
- systir
- f., gen. acc. and dat. systur, pl. nom. and acc. systr, gen. systra, dat. systrum; [Goth. swistar; A. S. swuster; Engl. sister; O. H. G. swestar; Germ. schwester; Dan. söster; Swed. syster; Lat. soror]:—a sister, Nj. 30, Grág. i. 288, passim; S. samfeðra, sammæðra, 170; al-systir, hálf-systir, a half-sister; móður-systir (Dan. moster), a mothers-sister, aunt; föður-S. (Dan. faster), a father’s-sister, aunt; afa-S., ömmu-S., a great aunt.
- systir
- II. metaph. in addressing; eigi má ek hljóð vera, sæl systirin, segir griðkona, Grett. 170 new Ed.; allra-S., all men’s sister, a nickname, Landn.; leik-S., stall-S., a play-sister; fóstur-S., a foster-sister: eccl., Guð vakti þik, systir, BS. i. 438; bræðr ok systr, Hom. 32.
- systir
- 2. a sister of charity, nun, Ann. 1343; systra-klaustr, a nunnery, H. E. i. 470; systra lifnaðr, lag, id., 470, 476.
- systir
- COMPDS: systurbarn, systrabörn, systurdóttir, systradætr, systursonr, systrasynir.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛋᚢᛋᛏᛁᚱ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- acc.
- accusative.
- A. S.
- Anglo-Saxon.
- Dan.
- Danish.
- dat.
- dative.
- Engl.
- English.
- f.
- feminine.
- gen.
- genitive.
- Germ.
- German.
- gl.
- glossary.
- Goth.
- Gothic.
- l.
- line.
- Lat.
- Latin.
- m.
- masculine.
- n.
- neuter.
- nom.
- nominative.
- O. H. G.
- Old High German.
- pl.
- plural.
- S.
- Saga.
- Swed.
- Swedish.
- eccl.
- ecclesiastical.
- metaph.
- metaphorical, metaphorically.
- id.
- idem, referring to the passage quoted or to the translation
Works & Authors cited:
- Grág.
- Grágás. (B. I.)
- Nj.
- Njála. (D. II.)
- Bs.
- Biskupa Sögur. (D. III.)
- Grett.
- Grettis Saga. (D. II.)
- Hom.
- Homiliu-bók. (F. II.)
- Landn.
- Landnáma. (D. I.)
- Ann.
- Íslenzkir Annálar. (D. IV.)
- H. E.
- Historia Ecclesiastica Islandiae. (J. I.)