Schwur
German (Berlin)
/ʃvuːɐ̯/
noun
Definitions
- (especially private, non-official) oath
Etymology
Inherited from Old High German swuor inherited from Proto-Germanic *swōraz (oath), *swarjaną (swear, speak).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*swarjaną
Gloss
swear, speak
Concept
Semantic Field
Law
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
話
Emoji
🤬
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- answer English
- answer print English
- answerability English
- answerable English
- answerer English
- answerest English
- answereth English
- answering English
- answerless English
- answerphone English
- autoanswer English
- beswear English
- foreanswer English
- forswear English
- misanswer English
- misswear English
- multianswer English
- nonanswer English
- outswear English
- reanswer English
- reswear English
- swear English
- swearable English
- swearer English
- swearest English
- sweareth English
- swearing English
- swearsies English
- swearsome English
- sweary English
- sworn English
- unswear English
- Gericht German
- Schwurgericht German
- *swer- Proto-Indo-European
- *swaranaz Proto-Germanic
- *swarjaną Proto-Germanic
- *swōraz Proto-Germanic
- answere Middle English
- sweren Middle English
- svar Old Norse
- sverja Old Norse
- sweren Old High German
- swuor Old High German
- 𐍃𐍅𐌰𐍂𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- *swarjan gmw-pro
- *swerien Old Dutch
- ansa Tok Pisin
- sweri Sranan Tongo