Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A quick grab, bat, or other motion with the hand or paw; a sweep. · A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat or club. · An act of interacting with a touch screen by drawing the finger rapidly across it. · An act of passing a swipecard through a card reader.
To grab or bat quickly. · To strike with a strong blow in a sweeping motion. · To scan or register by sliding (a swipecard etc.) through a reader. · To interact with a touch screen by drawing one's finger rapidly across it.
From earlier swip (with a short vowel), from Middle English swippen, swype (“to move violently”), from Old English sweopian, swipian, swippan (“to scourge, strike, beat, lash”), from Proto-West Germanic *swippjan, *swipōn, *swipēn, from Proto-Germanic *swipōną, *swipjaną, *swipāną (“to move”), from Proto-Indo-European *sweyb- (“to bend, sway, swing, sweep, swerve, turn”). Cognate with German schwippen (“sway back and forth”), Danish svippe (“to smack; crack a whip”), Icelandic svipa (“riding crop, whip”). Related to sweep, swoop.
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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionswippenenm
- Inherited-form mentionsweopianang
- Inherited-form mention*swippjangmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*swipōnągem-pro
- Derivation mention*sweyb-ine-pro · to bend, sway, swing, sweep, swerve, turn
- Cognate mentionschwippende · sway back and forth
- Cognate mentionsvippeda · to smack; crack a whip
- Cognate mentionsvipais · riding crop, whip
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