swede

swede · noun¹

From the earlier term Swedish turnip, because the Swedes introduced the plant to the English in the 1700s.

swede · verb²

Coined by Michel Gondry in the film Be Kind Rewind, from the claim that films produced in this way were imported from Sweden.

Swede · noun³

1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*swihô“Swede”
2. Germanic · derived from
3. Middle Low German · derived fromSwêde
4. English todaySwede

From Middle Low German Swêde, from a Germanic word akin to Old Norse Svíþjóð, Old English Swēoþēod (“Sweden”, literally “Swede nation”), itself from Swēo (“Swede”), from Proto-Germanic *swihô (“Swede”). Cognate with Dutch Zweed, German Schwede. Doublet of suede.