sweltとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 swelten, from 古期英語 sweltan, from Proto-West Germanic *sweltan, from Proto-Germanic *sweltaną. Cognate to Dutch zwelten (“to die”).

動詞

swelt (third-person singular simple present swelts, present participle swelting, simple past and past participle swelted or swelt) (obsolete outside dialects)

1. To die.
2. To succumb or be overcome with emotion, heat, etc.; to faint or swelter
   • 1567, Arthur Golding; Ovid's Metamorphoses Book. 1; line 571:

     Immediatly in smoldering heate of Love the t'one did swelt,

   • a. 1656, Joseph Hall, Songs in the Night:

     Thine Israel, o God, had never endured so hard a bondage under Pharaoh, as to be over-swelted in the Egyptian furnaces

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Her deare hart nigh swelt, And eft gan into tender teares to melt.

語源 2

動詞

swelt

1. (obsolete) simple past of swell

アナグラム

• Welts, welts