swican

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *swīkwan, from Proto-Germanic *swīkwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *swem(bʰ)- (“to bend, turn, swing”).[1]

Cognate with Old Frisian swīka (“stay far from”), Old Saxon swīkan (“betray, languish”), Middle Dutch swiken (Dutch bezwijken (“give way, sink”)), Old High German swīhhan (dialectal German schweichen (“wander round, deceive”)), Old Norse svíkva (“betray”) (Swedish svika, Danish svige).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈswiː.kɑn/

Verb

swīcan

  1. to wander, to move about
  2. to deceive, be treacherous

Conjugation

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Derived terms

Descendants
  • English: swike

References
  1. Pokorny, Julius (1959), “3030”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 3030
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