swager

Meaning

A brother-in-law.

Synonyms

hammering

drop forging

hammering machine

hammer forging

rotary swaging machine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈswɛ(ː)ɡ(.)ə(ɹ)/

Etymology

Recorded in neither Old English nor Middle English. Perhaps a borrowing from Dutch or Low German, but this derivation is rather unlikely due to the presence of the words like sweyr (“mother-in-law”) and swier (“father-in-law”) in some East Midlands dialects, which are derived from attested Old English and Middle English words sweger and sweor, respectively. Ultimately derived from Proto-Germanic *swēgraz (“husband's brother”), from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱuros (“husband's father”).