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sword
English
Alternative forms
- swerd (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English sword, swerd, from Old English sweord (“sword”), from Proto-Germanic *swerd? (“sword”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *seh?w- (“sharp”). Cognate with Scots swuird, swerd, sword (“sword”), North Frisian swird (“sword”), West Frisian swurd (“sword”), Dutch zwaard (“sword”), Low German Sweerd, Schwert (“sword”), German Schwert (“sword”), Danish sværd, Norwegian sverd, Swedish svärd (“sword”), Icelandic sverð (“sword”), Old East Slavic ???????? (sv?rd?l?, “drill”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /s??d/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /s??d/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /so(?)?d/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /so?d/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d
- Homophone: soared; sawed (non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)
Noun
sword (plural swords)
- (weaponry) A long-bladed weapon with a hilt, and usually a pommel and cross-guard, which is designed to stab, slash, and/or hack.
- Unsheathe your sword and dub him presently.
- (tarot) A suit in the minor arcana in tarot.
- (tarot) A card of this suit.
- (weaving) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.
- (heraldry) The weapon, often used as a heraldic charge.
Coordinate terms
- (weaponry): bayonet, claymore, cutlass, dagger, epee, épée, falchion, foil, katana, knife, machete, rapier, sabre, saber, scimitar, vorpal, yataghan, yatagan
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
sword (third-person singular simple present swords, present participle swording, simple past and past participle sworded)
- To stab or cut with a sword
Anagrams
- words
Middle English
Alternative forms
- swerd, sord, sworde, zuord
Etymology
From Old English sword, a Mercian form of sweord (which some forms are directly from); from Proto-Germanic *swerd?.
Pronunciation
- (Early ME; from sweord) IPA(key): /swœrd/
- (From sweord) IPA(key): /sw?rd/, /swurd/, /surd/
- IPA(key): /sw?rd/, /s?rd/
Noun
sword (plural swordes or (early) sweorden)
- sword, sabre
- (figuratively) Military might or power.
Descendants
- English: sword
- Scots: swerd, sword
References
- “sword, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-16.
Old English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sword/, [swor?d]
Noun
sword n (nominative plural sword) (Mercian)
- Alternative form of sweord
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shortsword
English
Alternative forms
- short sword
Etymology
short +? sword
Noun
shortsword (plural shortswords)
- A sword of a class generally shorter than one meter, but longer than a dagger.
Translations
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