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Old English · noun

sweora

Normalised swēora

Part of speech
noun, masculine
Declension
weak
IPA
/ˈswe͜oː.rɑ/
Syllables
ˈswe͜oː · rɑ (2 syllables)
Modern English
swireshoresneck

Meaning

  1. neck

    Hē oft wȳsċte þæt ealle Rōmāne hæfden ānne swēoran, þæt hē hraðost forċeorfan meahte.

    He often wished that all of Rome had one neck, so he could cut off all their heads with one blow.

    late 9th century, translation of Orosius' History Against the Pagans

  2. the part where the distance between two shores is the least

Declension

Declension of sweora
SingularPlural
Nominative swēoraswēoran
Accusative swēoranswēoran
Genitive swēoranswēorena
Dative swēoranswēorum

All forms (4)

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *swerhô. Cognate with Old Norse svíra. Probably ultimately related to *sweruz (“pillar, pole, neck”), which see.

Descendants

swire

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