different between sware vs swire

English

Verb

sware

1. (archaic) simple past tense of swear

Noun

sware (plural swares)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of swear

Anagrams

• resaw, sawer, swear, wares, wears

Afrikaans

Adjective

sware

1. attributive form of swaar

Gothic

Romanization

swar?

1. Romanization of ????????????????????

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French esquarre, esquerre.

Noun

sware

1. Alternative form of square

Etymology 2

From Old English swaru, from Proto-Germanic *swar?.

Alternative forms

• swore, swar, suare, swere

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?swa?r(?)/

Noun

sware

1. A response to a query or questioning; an answer.
2. A statement or spoken sentence; something said.
3. The taking of an oath or compact a promising or agreeing.
4. (rare) An example of profanity or swearing.

Related terms

• answere
• swaren

Descendants

• English: sware (obsolete), swear (remodeled on the verb swear)
• Scots: swear (remodeled on the verb sweir)

References

• “sw?r(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-05.

Etymology 3

From Old English *swarian.

Verb

sware

1. Alternative form of swaren

Etymology 4

From Old English sw?r, sw?r.

Noun

sware

1. Alternative form of swere

English

Etymology

From Middle English swire, from Old English sw?ora, from Proto-Germanic *swerhô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /swa??/

Noun

swire (plural swires)

1. (obsolete) The neck.
2. A hollow between two hills or peaks, especially with a road running through it; a vale.
   • 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford 2010, p. 33:

     As he approached the swire at the head of the dell […] , he beheld, to his astonishment, a bright halo in the cloud of haze, that rose in a semi-circle over his head like a pale rainbow.

Anagrams

• Rewis, Wires, Wiser, weirs, wiers, wires, wiser, wries

Scots

Alternative forms

• swyre

Etymology

From Old English sw?ora (Northumbrian sw?ra), or the cognate Old Norse svíra, from Proto-Germanic *swerhô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sw?i(?)r/

Noun

swire (plural swires)

1. (obsolete) neck
2. (geography) vale, swire, valley