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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/swār
Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *swēraz.
Adjective
*swār[1]
- heavy
Inflection
a-stem | |||
---|---|---|---|
Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | *swār | *swāru | *swār |
Accusative | *swāranā | *swārā | *swār |
Genitive | *swāras | *swāreʀā | *swāras |
Dative | *swārumē | *swāreʀē | *swārumē |
Instrumental | *swāru | *swāreʀu | *swāru |
Plural | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | *swārē | *swārō | *swāru |
Accusative | *swārā | *swārā | *swāru |
Genitive | *swāreʀō | *swāreʀō | *swāreʀō |
Dative | *swārēm, *swārum | *swārēm, *swārum | *swārēm, *swārum |
Instrumental | *swārēm, *swārum | *swārēm, *swārum | *swārēm, *swārum |
Descendants
- Old English: swǣr, swār
- Middle English: swere, swer, sware
- Scots: sweir
- English: sweer, swear
- Middle English: swere, swer, sware
- Old Frisian: swēr, swēre
- North Frisian: swier
- Saterland Frisian: sweer
- West Frisian: swier
- Old Saxon: swār, swāri
- Middle Low German: swâr
- German Low German: swar, swaar, swor; swer
- Middle Low German: swâr
- Old Dutch: *swār
- Middle Dutch: swâer
- Dutch: zwaar
- Afrikaans: swaar
- Dutch: zwaar
- Middle Dutch: swâer
- Old High German: swār
- Middle High German: swær, swǣre, swār, swēre, swēr
- Alemannic German:
- Swabian: schwär
- Bavarian: schwar
- German: schwer
- Luxembourgish: schwéier
- Vilamovian: świer
- Yiddish: שווער (shver)
- Alemannic German:
- Middle High German: swær, swǣre, swār, swēre, swēr
References
- Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 149: “PWGmc *swār”