Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗An act or instance of swimming. · The sound, or air bladder, of a fish. · A part of a stream much frequented by fish. · A dance or dance move of the 1960s in which the arms are moved in imitation of various swimming strokes, such as freestyle, breaststroke, etc.
To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means. · To become immersed in, or as if in, or flooded with, or as if with, a liquid. · To move around freely because of excess space. · To traverse (a specific body of water, or a specific distance) by swimming; or, to use a specific swimming stroke; or, to compete in a specific swimming event.
From Middle English swymmen, from Old English swimman (“to swim, float”) (class III strong verb; past tense swamm, past participle geswummen), from Proto-West Germanic *swimman, from Proto-Germanic *swimmaną (“to swim”), from Proto-Indo-European *swem(bʰ)- (“to be unsteady, move, swim”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian sweem, swome, swume, swumi, swumme, swääm (“to swim”), Saterland Frisian and West Frisian swimme (“to swim”), Dutch zwemmen (“to swim”), German schwimmen (“to swim”), Limburgish schwämme, zwömme (“to swim”), Low German swimmen (“to swim”), Luxembourgish schwammen (“to swim”), Vilamovian švymma, śwyma, śwymma (“to swim”), Yiddish שווימען (shvimen, “to swim”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål svømme (“to swim”), Faroese svimja (“to swim”), Norn suma (“to swim”), Norwegian Nynorsk svemja, svemje, svømma, svømme, symja, symje (“to swim”), Swedish simma (“to swim”).
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- Inherited-form mentionswymmenenm
- Inherited-form mentionswimmanang · to swim, float
- Inherited-form mention*swimmangmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*swimmanągem-pro · to swim
- Derivation mention*swem(bʰ)-ine-pro · to be unsteady, move, swim
- Cognate mentionsweemfrr
- Cognate mentionzwemmennl · to swim
- Cognate mentionschwimmende · to swim
- Cognate mentionschwämmeli
- Cognate mentionswimmennds · to swim
- Cognate mentionschwammenlb · to swim
- Cognate mentionšvymmawym
- Cognate mentionשווימעןyi · to swim
- Cognate mentionsvimjafo · to swim
- Cognate mentionsumanrn · to swim
- Cognate mentionsvemjann
- Cognate mentionsimmasv · to swim
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