verbTo faint, to lose consciousness. · To be overwhelmed by emotion, especially infatuation. · To overwhelm with emotion, especially infatuation. · To make a moan, sigh, or some other sound expressing infatuation or affection.
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryFrom Middle English swounen, swonen (“to faint”), and aswoune (“in a swoon”), both ultimately from Old English ġeswōgen (“insensible, senseless, dead”), past participle of swōgan (“to make a sound, overrun, suffocate”) (compare Old English āswōgan (“to cover over, overcome”)), from Proto-West Germanic *swōgan, from Proto-Germanic *swōganą (“to make a noise”), from Proto-Indo-European *sweh₂gʰ-.
Cognates
Cognate with German Low German swogen, swögen (“to faint, sigh, groan”), Dutch zwoegen (“to groan, breathe heavily”), dialectal Norwegian søgja (“to whistle, hum, talk loudly”). More at sough.
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