sister · nurse; by extension used to refer to any medical staff that is not a doctor (usually, but not necessarily, confined to female staff) · nurse; used as a title of address for nurses
köken: From Middle High German swëster, from Old High German swëster, from Proto-Germanic *swestēr. Compare Low German swester, Dutch zuster, English sister, Danish søster, Swedish syster.
köken: Inherited from Middle French soeur, from Old French suer (nominative), from Latin soror (cf. also the Old French oblique form seror from the Latin accusative sorōrem), from Proto-Italic *swezōr, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.
aile: âme sœur, avez-vous des frères et sœurs, belle-sœur, bonne sœur, petite sœur, quasi-sœur, république sœur
köken: From Latin soror, from a diminutive form or based on the model of fratello. Ultimately from Proto-Italic *swezōr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.
elder sister · term of address for an older female person
çekim: çoğul ئاچىلار · tamlayan ئاچىنىڭ
köken: From Proto-Turkic *ăča / *ĕče "mother; elder sister; older woman". Compare with Kyrgyz эже (eje, “elder sister; a way to address an older woman”), Southern Altai эје (eǰe, “elder sister; a way to address an older woman”), Uzbek ocha (“grandmother”),
one's big / elder sister · younger sister of the speaker's father or mother · a woman older than the speaker but younger than the speaker's parents, in relation to the speaker
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese irmãa, yrmãa, from Latin germāna (“sister”), from the adjective germānus (“of siblings”); more at irmão. By surface analysis, irmão + -a (forms feminine equivalents).
a sister (woman or girl having the same parents) · a nurse (in particular as address) · a nun; a female member of a religious community
çekim: çoğul systrar · tamlayan systers
eş: syrra
köken: From Old Swedish systir, from Old Norse systir, from Proto-Norse ᛊᚹᛖᛊᛏᚨᚱ (swestar), from Proto-Germanic *swestēr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr (“sister”).
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swé Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésh₂r̥ Proto-Indo-European *su-h₁ésh₂-ōr? Proto-Indo-European *swé Proto-Indo-European *-sōr ? Proto-Indo-European *swésōr Proto-Balto-Slavic *swésō Proto-Slavic *sesra Proto-Slavic *sestra Old Czech sestra Czech sestra Inherited from Old Czech sestra, from Proto-Slavic *sestra.
köken: Probably from the older form sor, inherited from Latin soror (nominative) via loss of /-r/ and then adjustment of the final vowel to the more typically feminine -ă (or less likely through a Vulgar Latin form *sora). The plural reflects Latin sorōres. The original form sor could occasionally be found in western Transylvania in some expressions like sor cu frate.