The story
- Old English · inherited fromswaþian“to cover”
- Middle English · inherited from*beswathen“to becover”
- English todaybeswathe
From Middle English *beswathen (“to becover”), from Old English swaþian (“to cover”), equivalent to be- + swathe (“to becover”).
Words from the same roots
Old Englishswaþian all →
swathe
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.