Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo die. · To succumb or be overcome with emotion, heat, etc.; to faint or swelter
From Middle English swelten, from Old English sweltan, from Proto-West Germanic *sweltan, from Proto-Germanic *sweltaną. Cognate to Dutch zwelten (“to die”).
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