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单词 swey
释义

sweyv.

Etymology: Old English swégan to make a noise, sound, move with a noise < *swōgjan (compare Gothic gaswōgian , ufswōgjan to sigh), cognate with swég , earlier swoeg sound, noise = Old Norse sœgr < *swōgiz , < swōg- , root of Old English swógan : see sough v.1 The form swey in quot. c1400 for sweying n. and adj. is either an abnormal strong past tense or representing Old English swéog, past tense of swógan.
Obsolete.
intransitive. To sound, make a sound, resound.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > thing heard > make sound [verb (intransitive)]
dinOE
sweyc1000
sounda1325
goa1450
speak1604
talk1793
to go off1810
c1000 Ælfric in Ags. Hom. (Assmann) 56 Swa þæt heora bodunge sweg swegde geond eall.
c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 104 Þæs Fæder stemn of heofenum hlude swegde, ðus cweðende.
a1240 Ureisun in Old Eng. Hom. I. 193 Murie dreameð engles biuoren þin onsene, Pleieð, & sweieð, & singeð bitweonen.
14.. Langl. P. Pl. (1842) Prol. 10 As I lay and lenede, And loked on the watres, I slombred into a slepyng, It sweyed [v.rr. swiȝede, swyed, sownede, sweyued] so merrily.

Derivatives

ˈsweying n. and adj. Obsolete (a) n. noise; (b) adj. resounding.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > thing heard > [noun] > sound
sounda1330
noisea1375
tunea1387
laita1400
sweyinga1400
noising1422
sone1630
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > thing heard > [adjective] > sounding
soundingc1374
sweyinga1400
unquiet1539
sonorific1683
sonoriferous1693
soniferous1710
a1400–50 Wars Alex. 5019 With a sweȝand swoȝe þis sware scho him ȝeldis.
c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 429 Þe soun of oure souerayn þen swey in his ere.
c1440 York Myst. xxx. 371 Crye pece in this prese,..Bidde them swage of þer sweying.
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