Icelandic

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Etymology

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From Old Norse sveiti, from Proto-Germanic *swait-, *swaitô, from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd-, *sweyd-.

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Noun

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sveiti m (genitive singular sveita, no plural)

  1. (archaic) sweat

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Old Norse

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *swait-, *swaitô, from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd- (to sweat), *sweyd-. Compare Old Saxon swēt, Old English swāt, Old High German sweiz.

Noun

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sveiti m

  1. sweat
  2. (poetic) blood

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References

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  • sveiti”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press