swebとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English swebben (“to sleep, swoon”), from 古期英語 swebban (“to put to sleep, lull, kill”), 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.

動詞

sweb (三人称単数 現在形 swebs, 現在分詞 swebbing, 過去形および過去分詞形 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 (複数形 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