Old English · noun
swat
Normalised swāt
- Part of speech
- noun, masculine / neuter
- Declension
- strong a-stem
- IPA
- /swɑːt/
- Syllables
- swɑːt (1 syllable)
- Modern English
- sweatswateswetsweteswotswotecomesmoisture
Meaning
-
sweat
-
used of other moisture that comes from the body, especially blood
Declension
All forms (3)
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *swait-, from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd-, *sweyd-. Cognate with Old Saxon swêt, Old High German sweiz, Old Norse sveiti (“sweat, blood”), Latin sudor, Sanskrit स्वेद (sveda).
Descendants
swate, sweat, swet, swete, swot, swote
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