swayn
Middle English
/swɛi̯n/
noun
Definitions
- squire, attendant of a knight
- servant, attendant
- young man
- commoner
Etymology
Inherited from Old English sweġen derived from Old Norse sveinn (boy) derived from Proto-Germanic *swainaz (servant, young man, relative).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*swainaz
Gloss
servant, young man, relative
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- boatswain English
- coxswain English
- swain English
- swaining English
- swainish English
- swainling English
- swainmote English
- swainship English
- soini Finnish
- *swé Proto-Indo-European
- *swaina- Proto-Germanic
- *swainaz Proto-Germanic
- sweġen Old English
- swān Old English
- cok Middle English
- cokswain Middle English
- sveinn Old Norse
- sveinn Icelandic
- sveinur Faroese
- bojin Marshallese