The word sister in all languages

Language Ways to say sister
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Polish siostra
Portuguese irmã
Romanian soră
Russian сестра [sestra]

In historical linguistics, sister languages are cognate languages; that is, languages that descend from a common ancestral language, the so-called proto-language. Every language in a language family that descends from the same language as the others is a sister to them.

What do you call sister in English?

1. Your mother’s (or father’s) sister is your AUNT. 2. Your mother’s (or father’s) brother is your UNCLE. 3.

What is Princess in other languages?

American English: princess /ˈprɪnsɪs, -sɛs/ Arabic: أَمِيرَة Brazilian Portuguese: princesa. Chinese: 公主 Croatian: princeza.

What are different ways to call your sister?

– Baby Sis.
– Twinkle.
– Sweetie.
– Baby Doll.
– Sista.
– Smarty.
– Dimples.
– Bitsy.

What are different ways to say sister?

– relative.
– twin.
– kin.
– kinsperson.
– relation.
– blood sister.

What does Didi mean in India?

elder sister

What is another name for princess?

duchess lady
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milady monarch
queen ruler
sovereign countess
dynast noblewoman

What is the root of all languages?

The common ancestor of English, Latin, Greek, Russian, Gaelic, Hindi, and many other languages spoken in Europe and India is known as Proto-Indo-European, whereas the more recent common ancestor of just English, German, Dutch, Norwegian and the other Germanic languages is known as Proto-Germanic.

What does Akka mean in India?

Sister Sister

Is English and Turkish sister languages?

English and Turkish isn’t sister languages. .

What is an Italian princess?

The word for the daughter of a king or queen, or the wife or daughter of a prince, is principessa (feminine, plural: principesse) in Italian. IPA: /prin·ci·pés·sa/Apr 4, 2020

Who can be called Princess in UK?

READ MORE. The wife of a British prince can also take the title of princess. Traditionally it has been the case a princess by marriage can’t have her title be princess, followed by her first name. Diana, Princess of Wales, was the correct title for her, however, she was consistently referred to as Princess Diana.

What is the sister language to English?

German

Who becomes a prince or princess in England?

Prince Charles is presently heir (next in line) to the British throne. He will not become king until his mother, Queen Elizabeth, abdicates (gives up the throne), retires or dies. When either of these happen, Prince Charles may abdicate and pass the throne to his eldest son Prince William.

What’s another name for Goddess?

In this page you can discover 22 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for goddess, like: female deity, muse, demigoddess, dryad, deity, sun god, Great Mother, aphrodite, priestess, god and sekhmet.

Can Kate Middleton be called Princess?

Middleton is best known as the Duchess of Cambridge, the title she inherited after marrying Prince William in 2011. However, if she were to use the princess title, she wouldn’t be allowed to go by « Princess Kate » or « Princess Catherine » because women who become royal by marriage must take their husband’s name.

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English sister, suster, from Old English swustor, sweoster, sweostor (“sister, nun”); from Proto-Germanic *swestēr (“sister”), from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr (“sister”).

Cognate with Scots sister, syster (“sister”), West Frisian sus, suster (“sister”), Dutch zuster (“sister”), German Schwester (“sister”), Norwegian Bokmål søster (“sister”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish syster (“sister”), Icelandic systir (“sister”), Gothic 𐍃𐍅𐌹𐍃𐍄𐌰𐍂 (swistar, “sister”), Latin soror (“sister”), Russian сестра́ (sestrá, “sister”), Lithuanian sesuo (“sister”), Albanian vajzë (“girl, maiden”), Sanskrit स्वसृ (svásṛ, “sister”), Persian خواهر‎ (xâhar, “sister”).

In standard English, the form with i is due to contamination with Old Norse systir (“sister”).

The plural sistren is from Middle English sistren, a variant plural of sister, suster (“sister”); compare brethren.

Pronunciation[edit]

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪs.tə(ɹ)/
• (General American) enPR: sĭs’tər, IPA^(key): /ˈsɪs.tɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɪstə(ɹ)
• Homophone: cister
• Hyphenation: sis‧ter

Noun[edit]

sister (plural sisters or (archaic in most senses) sistren)

1. A daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling.

   Synonym: (slang) sis

   Antonym: brother

   Hypernym: sibling

   My sister is always driving me crazy.

2. A female member of a religious order; especially one devoted to more active service; (informal) a nun.

   Synonym: nun

   Coordinate terms: brother, friar, frater

   Michelle left behind her bank job and became a sister at the local convent.

3. Any butterfly in the genus Adelpha, so named for the resemblance of the dark-colored wings to the black habit traditionally worn by nuns.
4. (Britain) A senior or supervisory nurse, often in a hospital.

   Synonym: charge nurse

5. Any woman or girl with whom a bond is felt through common membership in a community, race, profession, religion, organization, or ism.

   Connie was very close to her friend Judy and considered her to be her sister.

   • 1985, “Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves”, in Who’s Zoomin’ Who?, performed by Eurythmics and Aretha Franklin:

     Sisters are doing it for themselves / Standing on their own two feet

6. (slang, sometimes capitalized) A black woman.

   • 2009, Rajen Persaud, Why Black Men Love White Women, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 171:

     The short “naps” of the average Sister do not sway in the wind as that of a blonde.

7. (informal) A form of address to a woman.

   Synonyms: darling, dear, love, (US) lady, miss, (northern UK) pet

   What’s up, sister?

8. A woman, in certain religious, labour or socialist circles; also as a form of address.

   Thank you, sister. I would like to thank the sister who just spoke.

9. (attributively) An entity that has a special or affectionate, non-hierarchical relationship with another.

   Synonyms: affiliate, affiliated

   sister publication

   sister city

   sister projects

10. (computing theory) A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.
11. (usually attributively) Something in the same class.

    sister ships

    sister facility

Usage notes[edit]

• In Roman Catholicism, a distinction is often drawn (especially by members of female religious orders) between nuns and sisters, the former being cloistered and devoted primarily to prayer, the latter being more active, doing work such as operating hospitals, caring for the poor, or teaching.
• The plural sistren is no longer commonly used for biological sisters in contemporary English (although it was in the past) but may be found in some religious, feminist, or poetic usage.

Coordinate terms[edit]

• brother
• brethren

Derived terms[edit]

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• sororal
• sistren
• suster
• sustah

Descendants[edit]

• → Gulf Arabic: سِسْتَر‎ (sistar, “female nurse”)
• → Japanese: シスター (shisutā)
• → Korean: 시스터 (siseuteo)

Translations[edit]

Verb[edit]

sister (third-person singular simple present sisters, present participle sistering, simple past and past participle sistered)

1. (transitive, construction) To strengthen (a supporting beam) by fastening a second beam alongside it.

   I’m trying to correct my sagging floor by sistering the joists.

2. (obsolete, transitive) To be sister to; to resemble closely.

   • c. 1607–1608, William Shakeſpeare, The Late, And much admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: Imprinted at London for Henry Goſſon,  […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act V, scene 1]:

     Deep clerks she dumbs; and with her needle composes
     Nature’s own shape, of bud, bird, branch, or berry,
     That even her art sisters the natural roses;
     Her inkle, silk, twin with the rubied cherry

Translations[edit]

Further reading[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

• Istres, Reists, reists, resist, resits, restis, risest

Middle English[edit]

Noun[edit]

sister

1. Alternative form of suster

Scots[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English sister, syster, forms of suster influenced by Old Norse systir, from Old English sweostor, swustor, sweoster, from Proto-Germanic *swestēr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɪstər]

Noun[edit]

sister (plural sisteris)

1. sister

Derived terms[edit]

• guid-sister