Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA swimming of the head; a fainting fit; a swoon. · A sudden qualm of sickness.
From Middle English sweem, sweme, swem (“a dizziness”), from Middle English swemen (“to feel faint, be overcome”), from Old English *swǣman (“to trouble, grieve”); and also from Old Norse sveimr (“a bustle, stir”), from Proto-Germanic *swaimaz (“a moving to and fro, a sway”), from Proto-Indo-European *sweh₁- (“to sway, swing”). Cognate with Old Norse svími (“dizziness, fainting”) (Danish svime (“a swoon”)), Dutch zwijm (“a swoon, fainting fit”), Old English swīma (“vertigo, dizziness, a swoon”). More at swim.
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- Inherited-form mentionsweemenm
- Derivation mentionswemenenm · to feel faint, be overcome
- Derivation mention*swǣmanang · to trouble, grieve
- Derivation mentionsveimrnon · a bustle, stir
- Derivation mention*swaimazgem-pro · a moving to and fro, a sway
- Derivation mention*sweh₁-ine-pro · to sway, swing
- Cognate mentionsvíminon
- Cognate mentionsvimeda
- Cognate mentionzwijmnl
- Cognate mentionswīmaang
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