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swim

Bedeutung (Englisch)

Frequenz

B1
Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
/swÉȘm/
Etymologie (Englisch)

In summary

From Middle English swymmen, from Old English swimman (“to swim, float”) (class III strong verb; past tense swamm, past participle geswummen), from Proto-West Germanic *swimman, from Proto-Germanic *swimmaną (“to swoon, lose consciousness, swim”), from Proto-Indo-European *swem(bʰ)- (“to be unsteady, move, swim”). Cognates Cognate with Scots sweem, soom (“to swim”), Saterland Frisian swimme (“to swim”), West Frisian swimme (“to swim, float”), Dutch zwemmen (“to swim”), German schwimmen (“to swim”), Norwegian BokmĂ„l and Danish svĂžmme (“to swim”), Swedish simma (“to swim”), Norwegian Nynorsk symja (“to swim”).

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