swigen

From Old Dutch *swīgon, from Proto-West Germanic *swīgēn.

• IPA^(key): /ˈzwiːɣən/

swigen

1. not to speak, to be silent

• verswigen

• Dutch: zwijgen
• Limburgish: zwiege

• “swighen”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “swigen (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

Inherited from Old High German swīgan, from Proto-West Germanic *swīgēn.

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈs̠wiːɡən/

swīgen (class 1 strong, third-person singular present swīget, past tense sweic, past participle geswigen or geswîn, past subjunctive swige, auxiliary hān)
swīgen (class 2 weak, third-person singular present swīget, past tense swīgete, past participle geswīget, auxiliary hān)

1. not to speak, to be silent

• Central Franconian: schwijje, schweie
• German: schweigen
• Yiddish: שווײַגן (shvaygn)

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “swigen”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel

• yswigen

Alteration of chwysigen, from Middle Welsh chuyssigen, an alteration (with the suffix -en) of Proto-Brythonic *guɨsig, from Latin vēsīca (“bladder”).

• (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈswɪɡɛn/
  • (North Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈswɪɡan/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈswiːɡɛn/, /ˈswɪɡɛn/
• Rhymes: -ɪɡɛn

swigen f (plural swigod, not mutable)

1. bladder
2. blister
3. bubble

• swigen hidlydd (“filter bubble”)
• te swigod (“bubble tea”)