swelgan
Old English
verb
Definitions
- to swallow
- to eat up, devour
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Germanic *swelganą (devour, swallow, revel, gulp).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*swelganą
Gloss
devour, swallow, revel, gulp
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
燕
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- swallow English
- swig English
- swigger English
- *swelk- Proto-Indo-European
- svelge Norwegian Bokmål
- *farswelganą Proto-Germanic
- *fraswelganą Proto-Germanic
- *swelganą Proto-Germanic
- forswelgan Old English
- forswolewen Middle English
- swolowen Middle English
- svelga Old Norse
- svelgja Old Norse
- svelgja Icelandic
- swelgan Old High German
- *swelgan Old Dutch
- swelgan Old Saxon
- svælgha Old Swedish
- svælla Scanian