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語源

From 中期英語 swebben (“to sleep, swoon”), from 古期英語 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.

発音

• IPA: /swɛb/
• 韻: -ɛb

動詞

sweb (third-person singular simple present swebs, present participle swebbing, simple past and past participle swebbed)

1. (intransitive, UK dialectal, Northern England) To swoon; faint.

   Hoo swebbed, all droked in sweat, frae the heat o' the desert sun.

   She fainted, all drenched in sweat, from the heat of the desert sun.

名詞

sweb (plural swebs)

1. (UK dialectal, Northern England) A swoon.

派生語

• swebby

関連する語

• sweven

アナグラム

• EBWs, WBEs, webs