Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A loop of draped fabric. · Something that droops like a swag. · A place where water collects; a low, wet place where the land has settled. · A pass, gap or sag in a mountain ridge.
To (cause to) sway. · To droop; to sag. · To decorate (something) with loops of draped fabric. · To install (a ceiling fan or light fixture) by means of a long cord running from the ceiling to an outlet, and suspended by hooks or similar.
Inherited from Middle English swagen, a late collateral form of *swawen possibly originating from Lancashire and Yorkshire (possibly continued in Scots swaw (“wave”); parallel to e.g. drag for draw), from Old Norse *svaga (“to swerve, sway”), of unclear origin. Compare dialectal Norwegian svaga (“to sway, swing, stagger”).
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