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the built-in best friend you didn't ask for and can't return.
means a female sibling who shares one or both of your parents, or by extension a woman bonded to you as close as family.
from From Old English 'sweostor,' descended from Proto-Germanic 'swestēr' and traceable all the way back to Proto-Indo-European '*swésōr' — one of the oldest, most stable words humans have. Its cousins crowd the family tree: Latin 'soror' (giving us 'sorority'), Sanskrit 'svasar,' German 'Schwester.' The modern form with its hard 'st' was nudged along by the Old Norse 'systir' brought by Viking settlers, the linguistic equivalent of a relative moving in whether you liked it or not.
- word root
- From Proto-Indo-European, among humanity's oldest kinship words
- birth order
- Older sisters statistically tend toward higher academic achievement
- animal kin
- Hyena clans are ruled by dominant females and their daughters
- shared history
- She remembers your childhood crimes in courtroom detail
- sisterhood
- Honeybee colonies are almost entirely sisters serving one queen
venus and serena williams — tennis champions who won 30 grand slams combined and played each other 9 times
kate and pippa middleton — british sisters, one married prince william, other prominent in society
paris and nicky hilton — hotel heiress sisters famous for reality tv and celebrity culture in 2000s