swarten

English

Etymology

From swart +‎ -en (verbal suffix).

Verb

swarten (third-person singular simple present swartens, present participle swartening, simple past and past participle swartened)

1. (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 [...]

2. (intransitive) to become dark; darken

Anagrams

• netwars, strawen, strawne, wanters, warnest

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English sweartian, from Proto-West Germanic *swartōn, from Proto-Germanic *swartōną.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈswartən/

Verb

swarten

1. (intransitive, rare) To blacken or darken.

Conjugation

Conjugation of swarten (weak in -ed)

infinitive	(to) swarten, swarte
	present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	swarte	swarted
2nd-person singular	swartest	swartedest
3rd-person singular	swarteth	swarted
subjunctive singular	swarte
imperative singular		—
plural1	swarten, swarte	swarteden, swartede
imperative plural	swarteth, swarte	—
participles	swartynge, swartende	swarted, yswarted

¹Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

Descendants

• English: swart

References

• “swarten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-23.