- áswógan
- sv/t7 3rd pres áswégð past áswéog/on ptp áswógen to cover over, choke
Old to modern English dictionary. 2013.
áswógan
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swoon — swooningly, adv. /swoohn/, v.i. 1. to faint; lose consciousness. 2. to enter a state of hysterical rapture or ecstasy: The teenagers swooned at the sight of the singing star. n. 3. a faint or fainting fit; syncope. [1250 1300; (v.) ME swo(w)nen… … Universalium
swoon — late 13c., swogene, probably from O.E. geswogen in a faint, pp. of a lost verb, perhaps *swogan, as in aswogan to choke, of uncertain origin. Cf. Low Ger. swogen to sigh … Etymology dictionary
