sweb

Meanings

verbsweb (third-person singular simple present swebs, present participle swebbing, simple past and past participle swebbed)

present singular third person swebs · participle present swebbing · participle past swebbed · past swebbed · alternative swab

Northern EnglandUKdialectalintransitiveTo swoon; faint.
Hoo swebbed, all droked in sweat, frae the heat o' the desert sun.

nounsweb (plural swebs)

plural swebs · alternative swab

Northern EnglandUKdialectalA swoon.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see

faint swelter

Origin

Proto-Indo-European*swep-
Proto-Germanic*swabjaną
Proto-West Germanic*swabbjan
Old Englishswebban“to put to sleep, lull, kill”
Middle Englishswebben“to sleep, swoon”
Englishsweb

From Middle English swebben (“to sleep, swoon”), from Old English swebban (“to put to sleep, lull, kill”), from From Proto-West Germanic *swabbjan, from Proto-Germanic *swabjaną, *swēbijaną (“to lull, put to sleep”), from Proto-Indo-European *swep-, *sup- (“to sleep”). Cognate with Icelandic svefja (“to put to sleep, lull, soothe”), Latin sōpiō (“put to sleep, lull”, verb). Related to sweven.

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