English Explanatory Dictionary

sweb

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To swoon; faint.
noun
  1. A swoon.

Pronunciation

/swɛb/

Word forms

sweb swebs swebbing swebbed swab

Etymology

From Middle English swebben (“to sleep, swoon”), from Old English swebban (“to put to sleep, lull, kill”), from From Proto-West Germanic *swabbjan, from Proto-Germanic *swabjaną, *swēbijaną (“to lull, put to sleep”), from Proto-Indo-European *swep-, *sup- (“to sleep”). Cognate with Icelandic svefja (“to put to sleep, lull, soothe”), Latin sōpiō (“put to sleep, lull”, verb). Related to sweven.

Related words

sweven

Derived words

swebby
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