Schwein

From Middle High German and Old High German swīn, from Proto-West Germanic *swīn. Native only in western Moselle Franconian, otherwise borrowed from standard German.

• IPA^(key): /ʃʋɛi̯n/

Schwein n (plural Schwein or Schweine, diminutive Schweinche)

1. (western Moselle Franconian) pig; swine (animal)
2. (all dialects) swine (mean person)

• (pig): Ferke; Sau

From Middle High German swīn, from Old High German swīn (akin to Old Saxon swīn), from Proto-West Germanic *swīn.

Compare Low German Swin, Swien, Schwien (Schweyn), Dutch zwijn, English swine, Danish svin (also comparable to Latin suīnus and to Polish świnia).

• IPA^(key): /ʃvaɪ̯n/, [ʃʋaɪ̯n], [ʃʋäe̯n], [ʃʋɑe̯n]

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• Rhymes: -aɪ̯n

Schwein n (strong, genitive Schweines or Schweins, plural Schweine, diminutive Schweinchen n or Schweinderl n)

1. swine, pig.
3. (derogatory) A dirty, or contemptible person.
4. (often construed with haben) luck, good fortune

• Eber
• Ferkel
• Sau

• schweinartig
• schweineartig
• schweinekalt
• schweinisch
• schweinern

(luck):

• “Schwein” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Schwein” in Duden online
• “Schwein” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Schwein”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
• Schwein on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

From Middle High German and Old High German swīn (akin to Old Saxon swin), from Proto-West Germanic *swīn.

• IPA^(key): /ʃvaɪ̯n/, [ʃwaɪ̯n]

Schwein n (plural Schwein, diminutive Schweinche)

1. pig

   Die Schwein esse alle Sorte Dings.

   Pigs eat all sorts of things.

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary