「swear」が動詞として使われる場合、何かを固く誓う、法的な宣誓をする、何かの真実を断言する、または罵倒するといった意味合いで用いられる。具体的な例を以下に示す。
・例文「swear」が名詞として使われる場合、罵詈雑言や口汚い言葉を指す。具体的な例を以下に示す。
・例文出典:Wiktionary
From Middle English sweren, swerien, from 古期英語 swerian (“to swear, take an oath of office”), from Proto-West Germanic *swarjan, from Proto-Germanic *swarjaną (“to speak, swear”), from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“to swear”).
Cognate with West Frisian swarre (“to swear”), Saterland Frisian swera (“to swear”), Dutch zweren (“to swear, vow”), Low German swören (“to swear”), sweren, German schwören (“to swear”), Danish sværge, Swedish svära (“to swear”), Icelandic sverja (“to swear”), Russian свара (svara, “quarrel”). Also cognate to Albanian var (“to hang, consider, to depend from”) through Proto-Indo-European.
The original sense in all Germanic languages is “to take an oath”. The sense “to use bad language” developed in Middle English and is based on the Christian prohibition against swearing in general (cf. Matthew 5:33-37) and invoking God’s name in particular (i.e. frequent swearing was considered similar to the use of obscene words).
swear (third-person singular simple present swears, present participle swearing, simple past swore or (古風な用法) sware, past participle sworn or (一般的ではない用法) swore)
From the above verb, or from Middle English sware, from 古期英語 swaru, from Proto-Germanic *swarō.
From Middle English swere, swer, swar, from 古期英語 swǣr, swār (“heavy, heavy as a burden, of great weight, oppressive, grievous, painful, unpleasant, sad, feeling または expressing grief, grave, slow, dull, sluggish, slothful, indolent, inactive from weakness, enfeebled, weak”), from Proto-West Germanic *swār, from Proto-Germanic *swēraz (“heavy”), from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“heavy”).
Cognate with West Frisian swier (“heavy”), Dutch zwaar (“heavy, hard, difficult”), German schwer (“heavy, hard, difficult”), Swedish svår (“heavy, hard, severe”), Latin sērius (“earnest, grave, solemn, serious”) and Albanian varrë (“wound, plague”).
swear (comparative swearer または more swear, superlative swearest または most swear)
讒言する
to distort the meaning of something
だっこする
固辞する
the action of suspecting someone unjustly
to worry about something
しゃっくりする