The story
- Proto-Germanic · inherited from*swaitą“sweat”
- Old English · inherited fromswāt“perspiration; sweat”
- Middle English · inherited fromswot
- English todayswot
From a dialectal English word, from Middle English swot, swat, from Old English swāt (“perspiration; sweat”), from Proto-Germanic *swaitą (“sweat”). More at sweat.
Words from the same roots
Old Englishswāt all →
sweat
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.