swarten
English edit
Etymology edit
From swart + -en (verbal suffix).
Verb edit
swarten (third-person singular simple present swartens, present participle swartening, simple past and past participle swartened)
- (transitive) to make swart, dark, or swarty; darken
- 1814, Adolphe Thiers, Historical Works:
- Clad in rags, swartened by the sun, irritable, arrogant, and having at their head officers [...]
- (intransitive) to become dark; darken
Anagrams edit
Middle English edit
Etymology edit
From Old English sweartian, from Proto-West Germanic *swartōn, from Proto-Germanic *swartōną.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
swarten
- (intransitive, rare) To blacken or darken.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of swarten (weak in -ed)
1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
Descendants edit
- English: swart
References edit
- “swarten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-23.