Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗An instance, or the act of suddenly plunging downward. · A sudden act of seizing. · A quick passage from one note to the next. · A group of swallows or other birds.
To fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive. · To move swiftly, as if with a sweeping movement, especially to attack something. · To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing. · To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *swaipaną Proto-West Germanic *swaipan Old English swāpan Middle English swopen English swoop Inherited from Middle English swopen (“to sweep”), from Old English swāpan. Doublet of swaip. See also sweep, which was probably the basis for analogical restoration of /w/ in this word.
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