swær
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Middle English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]swær
- (Early Middle English) Alternative form of swere
Old English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-West Germanic *swār, from Proto-Germanic *swēraz.
Cognate with Old Frisian swere (West Frisian swier), Old Saxon swār, Middle Dutch swaer (Dutch zwaar), Old High German swāri (German schwer), Old Norse svárr (Swedish svår). The noun appears to derive from the adjective.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]swǣr (comparative swǣrra, superlative swǣrost)
Declension
[edit]Declension of swǣr — Strong
Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
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Nominative | swǣr | swǣr | swǣr |
Accusative | swǣrne | swǣre | swǣr |
Genitive | swǣres | swǣrre | swǣres |
Dative | swǣrum | swǣrre | swǣrum |
Instrumental | swǣre | swǣrre | swǣre |
Plural | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | swǣre | swǣra, swǣre | swǣr |
Accusative | swǣre | swǣra, swǣre | swǣr |
Genitive | swǣrra | swǣrra | swǣrra |
Dative | swǣrum | swǣrum | swǣrum |
Instrumental | swǣrum | swǣrum | swǣrum |
Declension of swǣr — Weak
Derived terms
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[edit]Descendants
[edit]Noun
[edit]swǣr n
References
[edit]- (adjective) Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “swǽr”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- (adjective) Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “swǽr”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[2], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- (noun) Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “swǽr”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[3], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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