Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo have sex with (someone). · To cut a crop in a sweeping or rambling manner, hence to reap; cut for harvest.
From Middle English swiven, from Old English swīfan (“to move, sweep, wend, revolve”), from Proto-Germanic *swībaną (“to wipe, sweep”). Cognate with Old Frisian swīva, swīfa (“to waver”), Old Norse svīfa (“to drift, ramble, rove”), Norwegian Nynorsk sviva (“to rotate, wander”). Related to Old English swift (“swift”), Middle English swyvel (“swivel”).
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