sister – English noun declension

English noun forms of sister

Noun: sister
Singularsister
Pluralsisters

Sample Sentences

  • My sister is always driving me crazy.
  • Michelle left behind her bank job and became a sister at the local convent.
  • Connie was very close to her friend Judy and considered her to be her sister.
  • Sisters are doing it for themselves / Standing on their own two feet [1985, “Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves”, in Who’s Zoomin' Who?, performed by Eurythmics and Aretha Franklin:]
  • A fly sister rolled in with a suitcase full of hip-hop novels called The Glamorous Life, and an African brother with long dreads wanted to sell them some incense and some fake Jacob watches. [2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 169:]
  • The short “naps” of the average Sister do not sway in the wind as that of a blonde. [2009, Rajen Persaud, Why Black Men Love White Women, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 171:]
  • And now, social media has made it worse. From Facebook to Twitter, I get all kinds of invitations. Recently a sister inboxed me on Facebook and told me that she knew for a fact that I wanted her and she wanted me. [2014, J. L. King, Full Circle: Loving. Living. Life. After The Down Low:]
  • What’s up, sister?
  • "Listen, sister. I've got a job for you." [1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 13:]
  • Thank you, sister. I would like to thank the sister who just spoke.
  • sister publication
  • sister city
  • sister projects
  • sister ships
  • sister facility
  • Within the ABCZ clade, Arecanae are sister of a group that includes all of the other taxa, and the latter fall into two major clades. [2000, Dennis W. Stevenson, Jerrold I. Davis, John V. Freudenstein, Christopher R. Hardy, Mark P. Simmons, Chelsea D. Specht, “A phylogenetic analysis of the monocotyledons based on morphological and molecular character sets, with comments on the placement of Acorus and Hydatellaceae”, in Karen L[ouise] Wilson, David A. Morrison, editors, Monocots: Systematics and Evolution, Collingwood, Vic.: CSIRO Publishing, →ISBN, page 21, column 1:]
  • Karimi (1999) and Cheng et al. (1997), among others, on the other hand, assume that specific objects are base-generated at SpecVP, whereas nonspecific objects are sister of V. [2006, Linguistics, number 401, page 11:]
  • The bee-eaters are sister to a clade that includes the rollers, ground-rollers, todies, motmots, and kingfishers (Cracraft 2013). [2016, Bruce M. Beehler, Thane K. Pratt, Birds of New Guinea: Distribution, Taxonomy, and Systematics, Princeton, N.J.; Woodstock, Oxon: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 220:]

Nouns inflected like sister

sister, daughter,

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *swé
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésh₂r̥
4. Proto-Indo-European *su-h₁ésh₂-ōr?
5. Proto-Indo-European *swé
6. Proto-Indo-European *-sōr
7. ?
8. Proto-Indo-European *swésōrder.
9. Proto-Germanic *swestēr
10. Proto-West Germanic *swester
11. Old English sweostor
12. Middle English suster
13. English sister
14. Inherited from Middle English suster, from Old English sweostor, from Proto-West Germanic *swester, from Proto-Germanic *swestēr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.
15. Doublet of soror. 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”).
16. In standard English, the form with i is due to contamination with Old Norse systir (“sister”).
17. The plural sistren is from Middle English sistren, a variant plural of sister, suster (“sister”); compare brethren.
18. The sense for "Adelpha-genus butterfly" is a semantic loan from translingual Adelpha, itself from Ancient Greek ἀδελφή (adelphḗ, “sister”). See: Dutch Nouns 'zuster', German Nouns 'Schwester', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns 'søster', Swedish Nouns 'syster', Icelandic Nouns 'systir', Gothic Nouns '𐍃𐍅𐌹𐍃𐍄𐌰𐍂', Latin Nouns 'soror', Old Norse Nouns 'systir', Ancient Greek Nouns 'ἀδελφή'.

Verbs referencing "sister"

Danish Nouns søster, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns søster, German Nouns Schwester, Ancient Greek Nouns ἔορ.