sware
English edit
Verb edit
sware
- (archaic) simple past of swear
- c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 63, lines 51–53:
- He shoke downe all the clothys,
And sware horryble othes
Before the face of God, […]
- 1855, Alfred Tennyson, Song from Maud:
- so I sware to the rose,/"Forever and ever, mine."
Noun edit
sware (plural swares)
Anagrams edit
Afrikaans edit
Adjective edit
sware
- attributive form of swaar
Gothic edit
Romanization edit
swarē
- Romanization of 𐍃𐍅𐌰𐍂𐌴
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old English swaru, from Proto-Germanic *swarō.
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sware
- A response to a query or questioning; an answer.
- A statement or remark; something said.
- The taking of an oath or compact; a promise.
- (rare) An instance of profanity or swearing.
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- English: sware (obsolete); swear (remodeled on the verb swear)
- Scots: swear (remodeled on the verb sweir)
References edit
- “swār(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-05.
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
sware
- Alternative form of swere
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
sware
- Alternative form of square
Etymology 4 edit
Verb edit
sware
- Alternative form of swaren
Mpade edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Central Chadic *sɨhʷaniʸ.
Noun edit
sware pl
References edit
- S. Allison, Makary Kotoko Provisional Lexicon (SIL)
- R.C. Gravina, The Phonology of Proto-Central Chadic