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单词 sweden
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Swedenn.

/ˈswiːd(ə)n/
Forms: Also 1500s Scottish Suethin, Suadene, 1600s Swethen, Scottish Swaden.
Etymology: < Middle Low German, Middle Dutch Sweden (Dutch Zweden ), in High German Schweden , probably dative plural of the national name Swede Swede n. In French Suède.In Old English the country was named Swéoland and Swéo-, Swíoríce (= Old Norse Svíaríki, Swedish Sverige); these names did not survive. In Anglo-Norman of the 12th and 13th centuries (e.g. Gaimar) the form is Suane, Swane (with adjective Suaneis). In Scots Swane, Swaine, occurs in the 16th cent. (e.g. 1559 Burgh Rec. Peebles, 1872, 262); compare Gaelic Suain. Forms with th appear in English in the 14th cent., e.g. Sweþerlond (? for Sweþelond) in Trevisa's Higden, Swetherwyke in Morte Arthure, an error for Swetheryk, which, with Swethrik, occurs in Wyntoun's Chron.; Swadrik of the Bannatyne MS. belongs to the same series. The simple Swethe is used in Mirrour of Our Ladye (15th cent.). From the 16th to the 18th cent. typical forms are Swethland, Swed(e)land, Sweedland. Forms approximating to the present form appear in Scots in the 16th cent., as Suethin, Suadene, Swadne. These forms seem to have been felt appropriate for adjectival uses, and in early 17th cent. English usage Sweden appears as the name of the people, Swedeland being the name of the country.
1. The name of one of the Scandinavian countries; †used attributive, spec. in Sweden boards (Sc.).
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] > imported wood
estrich board1350
raff1391
Sweden boards1503
dram1663
1503 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1900) II. 273 For ije fiue score viij Suethin burdis, ilk pece xij d.
1543 Aberd. Reg. XVIII. (Jam.) Tymmer skowis, Suadene buirdis, guird stringis and boddumis.
1612 Bk. Customs & Valuation in A. Halyburton Ledger (1867) 290 Swaden boordes of the great sort the hundreth..xxiiii li.
1612 Bk. Customs & Valuation in A. Halyburton Ledger (1867) 316 Spanish Spruce and Swadens Irne the stane weght thairof..xiii s. iiii d.
1665 R. Brathwait Comment Two Tales Chaucer 164 This Mother-Midnight, shap'd like a Sweden Hag.
2. = Swede n. 1.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Scandinavians > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Scandinavia > the Swedes > native or inhabitant of Sweden
Swedian1573
Swevian?1573
Sweden1602
Swede1614
1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 276 The Spaniard, the Polonian, the Sweden.
?1612 in Eng. Hist. Rev. Apr. (1914) 249 Another part [of their country is] usurped..by the Swedens.
1613 in Eng. Hist. Rev. Apr. (1914) 255 The Swethen hath likewise abused them.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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