sweord
Old English
Alternative forms
- suord, sword, swyrd, swurd, sƿeord
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *swerdą (“literally ‘cutting, festering thing’”), of uncertain origin, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂w- (“sharp”).Cognate with Old Frisian swerd (West Frisian swurd), Old Saxon swerd (Low German Sweerd), Old Dutch swert (Dutch zwaard), Old High German swert (German Schwert), Old Norse sverð (Danish sværd, Norwegian sverd, Swedish svärd)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sweord/
Noun
sweord n (nominative plural sweord)
- a sword
Descendants
- Middle English: sword, swerd
- English: sword
See also
- bil n
- mēċe m
- seċġ m