skesr-ayr

Grammatical information: m.

Meaning: `father of the husband, father-in-law',

Derivatives: ἑκυρά, -ή `mother of the husband, mother-in-law' (Il.). Denomin. Boeot. ἑκουρεύω `be father-in-law' (Corinn.).

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [1043] *sue̯ḱuro- `father-in-law'

Etymology: Old relatives name, preserved in many languages: Skt. śváśura- (\< *svaś- assimil.), Av. x^vasura-, Lat. socer, Germ., e. g. OHG swehur, Lith. šẽšuras (\< * seš assimil.), IE *su̯éḱuro-s m.; the original anlaut still to be seen in φίλε (Ϝh) ἑκυρέ Γ 172 (cf. Schwyzer 304, Chantr. Gramm. hom. 1, 146); the oxytone accent musst be a Greek innovation (after ἑκυρά; cf. also πενθερός). - To ἑκυρά agrees Arm. skesur (\< IE *ḱu̯eḱurā with assimil. for *su̯eḱ-); the ā-stem for an older ū-stem, cf. Skt. śvaśrū́-, NPers. xusrū, Lat. socrus, Celt., e. g. Welsh chwegr, Germ., e. g. OHG swigar, OCS svekry, IE *su̯eḱrū́-s f. Another innovation is Goth. swaihro = ONord. svǣra ( ōn-stem), from where a new masculine, Goth. swaihra. Also in other languages the names for `mother-in-law' gave new names for the father-in-law, so clearly in Arm. skesr-ayr prop. `husband of the mother-in-law, Welsh chwegr-wn, NHG Schwiegervater to Schwieger(mutter); prob. also in OCS svekrъ. This explains the oxytonation in ἑκυρός. Apparently in the life of the extended family, esp. for the young wife (cf. Risch Mus. Helv. 1, 117), the mother-in-law had a more dominant roll than the father-in-law. One may therefor ask, whether IE *su̯éḱuros was not sec. against *su̯eḱrū́s; see Specht KZ 65, 193. - The word probably contains the reflexive *su̯e (cf. on ἀέλιοι); but the ending is dark. - W.-Hofmann s. socer, Vasmer Russ. et. Wb. 2, 588. also Bq. - On ὑκερός, -ά with vowel metathesis (Lydia) s. Schulze KZ 52, 152 (= Kl. Schr. 58)

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