sworstis

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Etymology

Comparison with Lithuanian svar̃stis (“counterweight”) is semantically problematic.
Perhaps a Baltic word with contamination from Middle High German swert, cf. German Schwert (“sword, blade”).^[1]
Possibly an independent formation, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“to ache; injury”) or *seh₂w- (“sharp”), sw-er. Compare Proto-Slavic *svьrdьlъ (“drill”).

Noun

ſworſtiſ

knife
- “Pagan dialects from Narew” line 169, (copied by V. Zinov, 1983):
  nóź [nóż] — ſworſtiſ
  nóź — knife

References

^ Zigmas Zinkevičius (1985) “Lenkų-jotvingių žodynėlis?”, in Baltistica, volume 21, number 1 (in Lithuanian), Vilnius: VU, →DOI, page 79: “ſworſtiſ ‘peilis, l. nóź’ 169.”

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