mother-in-law · stepmother · a retired politician (male or female) who tries to keep influencing their successors through public or behind-the-scenes interventions
çekim: çoğul belles-mères
eş: belle-doche, marâtre, Marie-Louise
zıt: parâtre
köken: Inherited from Middle French belle-mere, belle-mère. By surface analysis, belle- + mère.
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish suegra (“mother-in-law”), from Late Latin socra, from Latin socrus, from Proto-Indo-European *sweḱrúh₂, whence German Schwieger/schwieger- and Russian Свекровь (Svekrovʹ).
köken: Izafet I compound of qayın (“relative-in-law”) + ana (“mother”). Cognate with Crimean Tatar and Uzbek qaynana, Turkish kaynana, Bashkir ҡәйнә (qəynə).
köken: Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀲𑀲𑁆𑀲𑀽 (sassū), from Sanskrit श्वश्रू (śvaśrū́), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *swaćrúH, from Proto-Indo-European *sweḱrúh₂ (“mother-in-law”).
Expanded from earlier Schwieger (“mother-in-law”), from Old High German swigar, from Proto-Germanic *swegrō, from Proto-Indo-European *sweḱruh₂- (“woman's mother-in-law”) (compare *swéḱuros (“woman's father-in-law”)). By surface analysis, schwieger- + Mutter.