See also: Swart

EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • (UK) IPA(key): /swɔː(ɹ)t/
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  • (US) IPA(key): /swɔɹt/
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle English swart, from Old English sweart, from Proto-West Germanic *swart, from Proto-Germanic *swartaz, from Proto-Indo-European *swerd-.

AdjectiveEdit

swart (comparative swarter, superlative swartest)

  1. Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny.
  2. (UK dialectal) Black. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  3. (obsolete) Gloomy; malignant.
    • 1905, Samuel Major Gardenhire, The Silence of Mrs. Harrold - Page 277:
      The keeping eunuchs were at back, solemn in stately rows, bespeared and bescimitared, the Danish, Irish, and German of their countenances lost in the daub which made them swart.
    • 1906, Lord Dunsany, Time and the Gods:
      Suddenly the swart figure of Time stood up before the gods, with both hands dripping with blood and a red sword dangling idly from his fingers, and said: “Sardathrion is gone! I have overthrown it!”
Derived termsEdit
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NounEdit

swart

  1. (UK dialectal) Black or dark dyestuff.
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Etymology 2Edit

From Middle English swarten, from Old English sweartian, from Proto-West Germanic *swartōn, from Proto-Germanic *swartōną; synchronically analyzable as swart +‎ -en.

VerbEdit

swart (third-person singular simple present swarts, present participle swarting, simple past and past participle swarted)

  1. (transitive) To make swart or tawny; blacken; tan.
    to swart a living part
    • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
      [] the heate of the Sun, whose fervor may swarte a living part, and even black a dead or dissolving flesh,

Etymology 3Edit

Variant of sward.

NounEdit

swart (uncountable)

  1. Obsolete spelling of sward
    • 1587: Raphael Holinshed, Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland [1]
      Howbeit where the rocks and quarrie grounds are, I take the swart of the earth to be so thin, that no tree of anie greatnesse, other than shrubs and bushes, is able to grow or prosper long therein for want of sufficient moisture wherewith to feed them with fresh humour, or at the leastwise of mould []

Etymology 4Edit

NounEdit

swart (plural swarts)

  1. (IE dialectal) Variant of swath.

Further readingEdit

AnagramsEdit

AfrikaansEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Dutch zwart, from Proto-Germanic *swartaz.

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

swart (attributive swart, comparative swarter, superlative swartste)

  1. black (colour of objects)
  2. Black (classification of people)

AntonymsEdit

German Low GermanEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle Low German swart, from Old Saxon swart, from Proto-West Germanic *swart, from Proto-Germanic *swartaz.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /swart/, /swaːt/, /svaːt/
  • IPA(key): /zwart/, /zwaːt/
  • IPA(key): /swat/, /svat/

AdjectiveEdit

swart (comparative swärter, superlative swärtst)

  1. black

DeclensionEdit

GothicEdit

RomanizationEdit

swart

  1. Romanization of 𐍃𐍅𐌰𐍂𐍄

Middle DutchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Dutch swart, from Proto-West Germanic *swart, from Proto-Germanic *swartaz.

AdjectiveEdit

swart

  1. black

InflectionEdit

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

DescendantsEdit

  • Dutch: zwart
  • Limburgish: zwart
  • West Flemish: zwort

Further readingEdit

Middle EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old English sweart, from Proto-West Germanic *swart, from Proto-Germanic *swartaz; compare Middle Dutch swart, Middle Low German swart, Middle High German swarz.

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

swart (plural and weak singular swarte, comparative swarter)

  1. Dark, oppressive, blackened.
  2. Black; swart.
    1. Black-skinned, swarthy; having dark skin.
    2. (rare) Bruised, heavily wounded.
  3. (rare) Evil, malign.

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DescendantsEdit

ReferencesEdit

Old SaxonEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-West Germanic *swart, from Proto-Germanic *swartaz.

AdjectiveEdit

swart

  1. black

DeclensionEdit


DescendantsEdit

ScotsEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle English swart, from Old English sweart, from Proto-West Germanic *swart, from Proto-Germanic *swartaz.

NounEdit

swart (plural swarts)

  1. Black or dark dyestuff.

Etymology 2Edit

From Old Norse svartr.

AdjectiveEdit

swart (comparative mair swart, superlative maist swart)

  1. Black; swarthy.
Derived termsEdit

West FrisianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Frisian swart, swert, from Proto-West Germanic *swart, from Proto-Germanic *swartaz.

AdjectiveEdit

swart

  1. black

InflectionEdit

Inflection of swart
uninflected swart
inflected swarte
comparative swarter
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial swart swarter it swartst
it swartste
indefinite c. sing. swarte swartere swartste
n. sing. swart swarter swartste
plural swarte swartere swartste
definite swarte swartere swartste
partitive swarts swarters

Further readingEdit

  • swart (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

NounEdit

swart n (plural swarten)

  1. black

See alsoEdit

Colors in West Frisian · kleuren (layout · text)
     wyt      griis      swart
             read              oranje; brún              giel
                          grien             
             blaugrien                           blau
             fiolet              pears              rôze

Further readingEdit

  • swart (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011