yerna
Chavacano
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Spanish yerna (“daughter-in-law”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʝeɾna/, [ˈʝ͡ʝeɾ.na]
- Hyphenation: yer‧na
Noun
yerna
- daughter-in-law
- Coordinate term: yerno
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʝeɾna/ [ˈɟ͡ʝeɾ.na] (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay)
- IPA(key): /ˈʃeɾna/ [ˈʃeɾ.na] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /ˈʒeɾna/ [ˈʒeɾ.na] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -eɾna
- Syllabification: yer‧na
Noun
yerna f (plural yernas, masculine yerno, masculine plural yernos)
- (Bolivia, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Venezuela) daughter-in-law
- Synonym: nuera
Further reading
- “yerna”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025