Noun: sisterson
| Singular | sisterson |
| Plural | sistersons |
Sample Sentences
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But next year, to conserve the soil, it'll be put in alfalfa, and my sisterson Willy takes care of it then. [1974, Martin Harry Greenberg, Patricia S. Warrick, Political Science Fiction:]
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The Svarfdalers came out there to the coast; among their company were the Thorgrimssons, sistersons of Ljot, and the men of Ljot's household. [1989, E. S. Shaffer, Comparative Criticism:]
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[…] Canon Tiedemann Giese (Polish Gize), a sisterson of the Ferbers Mauritius, Eberhard, and Hildebrand, to publish the pamphlet Floscvlorvm Lvtheranorvm De fide et operibus avēηλoуıкov, […] [2003, Jeremi Wasiutyński, The Solar Mystery:]
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Slit nostrils and gouged eyes ensured that Apius's exiled sister-sons need not be considered by the Senators. [2010, Guy Gavriel Kay, Sailing to Sarantium:]
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But the brothers and sons of Taminy were angry that Taminy was dead. And the sistersons of Taminy were angry, too. [2013, Iver Cooper, 1636: Seas of Fortune:]
Nouns inflected like sisterson
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English systerson, sustersone, from Old English sweostorsunu, from Proto-West Germanic *swestersunu, from Proto-Germanic *swestērsunuz, equivalent to sister + son. See: Old English Nouns '
sweostorsunu'.