Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
Any of various species of large, long-necked waterfowl, of genus Cygnus (bird family: Anatidae), most of which have white plumage. · One whose grace etc. suggests a swan. · This bird used as a heraldic charge, sometimes with a crown around its neck (e. g. the arms of Buckinghamshire).
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo travel or move about in an aimless, idle, or pretentiously casual way.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swenh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *swónh₂-osder. Proto-Germanic *swanaz Proto-West Germanic *swan Old English swan Middle English swan English swan From Middle English swan, from Old English swan, from Proto-West Germanic *swan, from Proto-Germanic *swanaz (“swan”, literally “the singing bird”), from Proto-Indo-European *swonh₂-/*swenh₂- (“to sing, make sound”). Cognate with West Frisian swan, Low German Swaan, swan, Dutch zwaan, German Schwan, Danish svane, Norwegian svane, Swedish svan. Related also to Old English ġeswin (“melody, song”), Old English swinsian (“to make melody”). Further cognates include (possibly) Russian звон (zvon, “ring, chime”); Latin sonus (“sound”), Sanskrit स्वन् (svan, “sound”). Doublet of sound.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionswanenm
- Inherited-form mentionswanang
- Inherited-form mention*swangmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*swanazgem-pro · swan
- Cognate mentionswanfy
- Cognate mentionSwaannds
- Cognate mentionzwaannl
- Cognate mentionSchwande
- Cognate mentionsvaneda
- Cognate mentionsvaneno
- Cognate mentionsvansv
- Cognate mentionġeswinang · melody, song
- Cognate mentionswinsianang · to make melody
- Cognate mentionзвонru · ring, chime
- Cognate mentionsonusla · sound
- Cognate mentionस्वन्sa · sound
- Doublet mentionsounden
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