sweer

• swear, sweir, swere

From Middle English swere, sware, from Old English swǣr, swār (“heavy, of great weight, oppressive, grievous, painful, unpleasant, great, sad, feeling or expressing grief, grave, slow, dull, sluggish, slothful, indolent, inactive from weakness, enfeebled, weak”), from Proto-West Germanic *swār, from Proto-Germanic *swēraz, *swērijaz (“heavy”), from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“heavy”).

• IPA^(key): /swɪə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

sweer (comparative more sweer, superlative most sweer)

1. (UK dialectal) Heavy.
2. (UK dialectal) Dull; indolent; lazy.
3. (UK dialectal) Reluctant; unwilling; disinclined.

• resew, re-sew, ewers, sewer, weres, Weser, weers, ewres, Weers, Ewers

From Dutch zweren, from Middle Dutch sweren, from Old Dutch *swerien, sweren, from Proto-Germanic *swarjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *swer-.

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sweer (present sweer, present participle swerende, past participle gesweer)

1. to swear

From Old Dutch *sweur, *swēr, from Proto-Germanic *swehuraz, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱuros.

swêer m

1. male in-law
2. father-in-law

• “sweer”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “sweer (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

• sweere (Mooring)
• swiar (Sylt)

From Proto-Germanic *swarjaną.

• (Föhr-Amrum) IPA^(key): [sveːɐ̯]

sweer

1. (Föhr-Amrum) to swear, make an oath

From Old Frisian swēr, from Proto-West Germanic *swār. Cognates include West Frisian swier and German schwer.

• IPA^(key): /sveːr/
• Hyphenation: sweer
• Rhymes: -eːr

sweer (masculine sweren, feminine, plural or definite swere, comparative swarrer, superlative sweerst)

1. heavy

• Marron C. Fort (2015) “sweer”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

sweer (comparative mair sweer, superlative maist sweer)

1. alternative form of sweir