sweotol
Old English edit
Alternative forms edit
- swiotul, sutel, sutol, sutul, sweotel, sweotul, swital, switel, switol, swutel, swutol, swutul, swytel, swytol
Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *switul, from Proto-Germanic *switulaz (“clear; evident”), possibly from an early merging of Proto-Germanic *sw- (“self”) from Proto-Indo-European *swō + witan (“to know”), from Proto-Germanic *witaną, with the suffix + -ol (“prone to doing”) from Proto-Germanic *-ulaz (adjective suffix), with the general meaning "self-knowable", thus "evident", however possible derivatives such as *witulaz, *witol (evident) and *switaną, *switan (to know oneself) do not exist outside of this adjective.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
sweotol
Declension edit
Declension of sweotol — Strong
Declension of sweotol — Weak
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References edit
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “sweotol”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.