Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A single action of sweeping. · The person who steers a dragon boat. · A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew. · A chimney sweep.
To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush. · To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke. · To search (a place) methodically. · To travel quickly.
From Middle English swepen, from Proto-West Germanic *swaipijan (unattested in Old English), from Proto-Germanic *swaipijaną. Cognate with Early Modern West Frisian swiepe (“whip, cleanse, sweep”), from Old Frisian swēpa, suepa (“sweep”). More distantly related to Old Norse sveipa (whence Swedish svepa). See also swoop.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionswepenenm
- Inherited-form mention*swaipijangmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*swaipijanągem-pro
- Cognate mentionswiepefy · whip, cleanse, sweep
- Cognate mentionswēpaofs
- Cognate mentionsveipanon
- Cognate mentionsvepasv
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