different between disinclined vs sweer

English

Etymology

dis- +? inclined

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?s.???kla?nd/

Adjective

disinclined (not comparable)

1. Not inclined; having a disinclination; being unwilling.

Antonyms

• inclined

Translations

Verb

disinclined

1. simple past tense and past participle of disincline

English

Alternative forms

• swear, sweir, swere

Etymology

From Middle English swere, sware, from Old English sw?r, sw?r (“heavy, of great weight, oppressive, grievous, painful, unpleasant, great, sad, feeling or expressing grief, grave, slow, dull, sluggish, slothful, indolent, inactive from weakness, enfeebled, weak”), from Proto-West Germanic *sw?r, from Proto-Germanic *sw?raz, *sw?rijaz (“heavy”), from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“heavy”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sw??/

Adjective

sweer (comparative more sweer, superlative most sweer)

1. (Britain dialectal) Heavy.
2. (Britain dialectal) Dull; indolent; lazy.
3. (Britain dialectal) Reluctant; unwilling; disinclined.

Anagrams

• Ewers, Weser, ewers, re-sew, resew, sewer, weres

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch zweren, from Middle Dutch sweren, from Old Dutch *swerien, sweren, from Proto-Germanic *swarjan?, from Proto-Indo-European *swer-.

Verb

sweer (present sweer, present participle swerende, past participle gesweer)

1. to swear

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *sweur, *sw?r, from Proto-Germanic *swehuraz, from Proto-Indo-European *swé?uros.

Noun

swêer m

1. male in-law
2. father-in-law

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

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

Scots

Adjective

sweer (comparative mair sweer, superlative maist sweer)

1. Alternative form of sweir