swingen

Borrowed from English swing.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʋɪ.ŋə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: swin‧gen
• Rhymes: -ɪŋən

swingen

1. (intransitive) to swing

Borrowed from English swing. Doublet of schwingen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈswɪ.ŋən/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋən

swingen (weak, third-person singular present swingt, past tense swingte, past participle geswingt, auxiliary haben)

1. (music) to swing
2. to swing (to engage in swinging, wife-swapping)

From Old Dutch *swingan, from Proto-West Germanic *swingan (“to swing”).

swingen

1. (intransitive) to swing, to sway
2. (intransitive) to fall, to topple
3. (transitive) to swing, to sway
4. (transitive) to fling outwards

• Limburgish: zwinge

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

swingen

1. Alternative form of swyngen

Inherited from Old High German swingan, from Proto-West Germanic *swingan, from Proto-Germanic *swinganą.

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

swingen (class 3 strong, third-person singular present swinget, past tense swanc, past participle geswungen, past subjunctive swünge, auxiliary hān)

1. to swing

• German: schwingen

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