Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/swait-

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

From Pre-Germanic *swoyd-o-, from Proto-Indo-European *sweyd- (“to sweat”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈswɑi̯.tɑz/ (masculine a-stem)
• IPA^(key): /ˈswɑi̯.tɑ̃/ (neuter a-stem)
• IPA^(key): /ˈswɑi̯.tɔːː/ (masculine n-stem)

*swait- m or n

1. sweat; blood

• *swaitaną
• *swaitijaną

• *switjaną

• Old English: swāt (< *swaitą)
  • Middle English: swate, swote, swot, swete, swet (< under influence from the verb)
    • Scots: swate, swait, swete, sweit
    • English: sweat
      • → Esperanto: ŝvito
    • English: swot
• Old Frisian: swēt (< *swaitaz)
  • North Frisian: swiet
  • Saterland Frisian: Sweet n
  • West Frisian: swit
• Old Saxon: swēt
  • Middle Low German: swēt
    • German Low German: Sweet
• Old Dutch: *swēt
  • Middle Dutch: swêet
    • Dutch: zweet
    • Limburgish: zweit
• Old High German: sweiz (< *swaitaz)
  • Middle High German: sweiz
    • German: Schweiß
    • Luxembourgish: Schweess
    • Vilamovian: śwaas
• Old Norse: sveiti (< *swaitô)
  • Icelandic: sveiti, sviti
  • Faroese: sveiti, sveitti
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: sveite, sveitte
  • Norwegian Bokmål: svette
  • Old Swedish: svēter, svetter; svēte
    • Swedish: svett
  • Danish: sved