Levir

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A husband's brother;

— used in reference to levirate marriages.

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levir
lēvir, ĭri, m. [for dēvir, kindred with Sanscr. dēvar, whence juvān = juvenis; Gr. δαήρ], a husband'...

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