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suegra

/ˈsweɡɾa/

noun, feminine/ˈsweɡɾa/plural: suegras

mother-in-law (spouse's mother)

Related: espantasuegras, matasuegras

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).

noun, feminine/ˈsweɡɾa/plural: suegras

one Salvadoran colón; the coin of that value; heel, butt (of a loaf of bread)

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).