sweer
English
Alternative forms
- swear, sweir, swere
Etymology
From Middle English swere, sware, from Old English swǣr, swār (“heavy, of great weight, oppressive, grievous, painful, unpleasant, great, sad, feeling or expressing grief, grave, slow, dull, sluggish, slothful, indolent, inactive from weakness, enfeebled, weak”), from Proto-West Germanic *swār, from Proto-Germanic *swēraz, *swērijaz (“heavy”), from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“heavy”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /swɪə/
- Rhymes: -ɪə
Adjective
sweer (comparative more sweer, superlative most sweer)
- (UK dialectal) Heavy.
- (UK dialectal) Dull; indolent; lazy.
- (UK dialectal) Reluctant; unwilling; disinclined.
Anagrams
- Ewers, Weser, ewers, re-sew, resew, sewer, weres
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch zweren, from Middle Dutch sweren, from Old Dutch *swerien, sweren, from Proto-Germanic *swarjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *swer-.
Pronunciation
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Verb
sweer (present sweer, present participle swerende, past participle gesweer)
- to swear
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch *sweur, *swēr, from Proto-Germanic *swehuraz, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱuros.
Noun
swêer m
- male in-law
- father-in-law
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Further reading
- “sweer”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “sweer (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
Saterland Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian swēr, from Proto-West Germanic *swār. Cognates include West Frisian swier and German schwer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sveːr/
- Hyphenation: sweer
- Rhymes: -eːr
Adjective
sweer (inflected swere, comparative swarrer, superlative sweerst)
- heavy
References
- Marron C. Fort (2015), “sweer”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN
Scots
Adjective
sweer (comparative mair sweer, superlative maist sweer)
- Alternative form of sweir