Etymology · Proto-Indo-European
*swé
8 English words descend from Proto-Indo-European *swé, most common first.
- soleOnly.
- swainA young man or boy in service; a servant.
- sereWithout moisture; dry.
- selfsameChiefly preceded by the: precisely the same; the very same; the same not only in being similar but in being identical.
- swadeshiA policy of nationalist self-sufficiency in India, involving the revival and promotion of domestic production and (originally) the boycott of British products.
- desuetudeThe state when something (for example, a custom or a law) is no longer observed nor practised; disuse, obsolescence.
- hetegonyThe study of the origin of the planets in the solar system.
- idioticonA dictionary of a specific dialect, or of the words and phrases peculiar to one part of a country.