swelt
English
/swɛlt/
verb
Definitions
- (obsolete) To die.
- (obsolete) To succumb or be overcome with emotion, heat, etc.; to faint or swelter
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English swelten (faint, die) inherited from Old English sweltan (die) inherited from Proto-Germanic *sweltaną (die).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*sweltaną
Gloss
die
Concept
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Emoji
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- forswelt English
- swelter English
- sweltersome English
- sweltery English
- zwelten Dutch, Flemish
- *swel- Proto-Indo-European
- *sweltaną Proto-Germanic
- sweltan Old English
- forswelten Middle English
- swelten Middle English
- sweltren Middle English
- svelta Old Norse
- swelten Middle Dutch
- 𐍃𐍅𐌹𐌻𐍄𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- *sweltan Old Dutch
- sweltan Old Saxon
- schwalth Crimean Gothic