The story
- Proto-Germanic · inherited from*sweltaną
- Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*sweltan
- Old English · inherited fromsweltan
- Middle English · inherited fromswelten
- English todayswelt
From Middle English swelten, from Old English sweltan, from Proto-West Germanic *sweltan, from Proto-Germanic *sweltaną. Cognate to Dutch zwelten (“to die”).
Words from the same roots
Middle Englishswelten all →
swelter
Old Englishsweltan all →
swelter
Proto-West Germanic*sweltan all →
swelter
Proto-Germanic*sweltaną all →
swelter
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.