The story
- Proto-Indo-European · derived from*swoyd-“to sweat”
- Proto-Germanic · derived from*swait-
- Old High German · derived fromswizzen
- Yiddish · borrowed fromשוויצן
- English todayshvitz
Borrowed from Yiddish שוויצן (shvitsn), from Old High German swizzen (Modern German schwitzen), from Proto-Germanic *swait- (English sweat), from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd- (“to sweat”). Doublet of sweat.
Words from the same roots
Proto-Germanic*swait- all →
sweat
Proto-Indo-European*swoyd- all →
sweat
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.