different between swelp vs swelt

English

Verb

swelp

1. Pronunciation spelling of so help.

Usage notes

• Used almost exclusively as an intensifier in the phrase "swelp me" = "so help me".

Anagrams

• Plews, Welps, plews

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sw?lt/
• Rhymes: -?lt

Etymology 1

From Middle English swelten, from Old English sweltan, from Proto-Germanic *sweltan?. Cognate to Dutch zwelten (“to die”).

Verb

swelt (third-person singular simple present swelts, present participle swelting, simple past swelted or swolt, past participle swelted or swolten)

1. (obsolete outside dialects) To die.
2. (obsolete outside dialects) 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

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Etymology 2

Verb

swelt

1. (obsolete) simple past tense of swell

Anagrams

• welts