Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To swoon; faint.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA swoon.
From Middle English swebben (“to sleep, swoon”), from Old English swebban (“to put to sleep, lull, kill”), from From Proto-West Germanic *swabbjan, from Proto-Germanic *swabjaną, *swēbijaną (“to lull, put to sleep”), from Proto-Indo-European *swep-, *sup- (“to sleep”). Cognate with Icelandic svefja (“to put to sleep, lull, soothe”), Latin sōpiō (“put to sleep, lull”, verb). Related to sweven.
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- Root classification mention*swep-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionswebbenenm · to sleep, swoon
- Inherited-form mentionswebbanang · to put to sleep, lull, kill
- Inherited-form mention*swabbjangmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*swabjanągem-pro
- Derivation mention*swep-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionsvefjais
- Cognate mentionsōpiōla
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