sværia
Old Swedish
verb
Definitions
- to swear (an oath)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse sverja (swear) inherited from Proto-Germanic *swarjaną (swear, speak).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*swarjaną
Gloss
swear, speak
Concept
Semantic Field
Law
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
話
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- swear English
- *swer- Proto-Indo-European
- sverge Norwegian Bokmål
- *swaranaz Proto-Germanic
- *swarjaną Proto-Germanic
- *swōraz Proto-Germanic
- svära Swedish
- sverja Norwegian Nynorsk
- swerian Old English
- forsweren Middle English
- sweren Middle English
- swerer Middle English
- sweryng Middle English
- svar Old Norse
- sverja Old Norse
- sverja Icelandic
- sweren Old High German
- svørja Faroese
- 𐍃𐍅𐌰𐍂𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- *swarjan gmw-pro
- *swerien Old Dutch
- sväri Westrobothnian
- swæriæ Old Danish