swear
Oznaczający
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- To take an oath, to promise intensely, solemnly, and/or with legally binding effect.
- To take an oath that an assertion is true.
- To promise intensely that something is true; to strongly assert.
- To administer an oath to (a person).
- To use offensive, profane, or obscene language.
Częstotliwość
Wymawiane jako (IPA)
/swɛə/
Etymologia
From Middle English sweren, swerien, from Old English swerian (“to swear, take an oath of office”), from Proto-West Germanic *swarjan, from Proto-Germanic *swarjaną (“to speak, swear”), from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“to swear”). Cognate with West Frisian swarre (“to swear”), Saterland Frisian swera (“to swear”), Dutch zweren (“to swear, vow”), Low German swören (“to swear”), sweren, German schwören (“to swear”), Danish sværge, Swedish svära (“to swear”), Icelandic sverja (“to swear”), Russian свара (svara, “quarrel”). Also cognate to Albanian var (“to hang, consider, to depend from”) through Proto-Indo-European. The original sense in all Germanic languages is “to take an oath”. The sense “to use bad language” developed in Middle English and is based on the Christian prohibition against swearing in general (cf. Matthew 5:33-37) and invoking God’s name in particular (i.e. frequent swearing was considered similar to the use of obscene words).
Pokrewny z niderlandzki
zweren
Pokrewny z niemiecki
schwören
Pokrewny z zachodniofryzyjski
swier
Pokrewny z niderlandzki
zwaar
Pokrewny z niemiecki
schwer
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