swine

Nghĩa (English)

  1. A pig (the animal).
  2. A pig (the animal). The Zimmerman farm introduced swine to their husbandry.
  3. A contemptible person (plural swines).
  4. (slang) A police officer; a "pig".
  5. (slang) Something difficult or awkward; a pain.

Tính thường xuyên

C1
Phát âm là (IPA)
/swaɪn/
Từ nguyên (English)

In summary

From Middle English swyn, swin, from Old English swīn, from Proto-West Germanic *swīn, from Proto-Germanic *swīną, from an adjectival form of Proto-Indo-European *suH- (“pig”). By surface analysis, sow + -en. Cognates Related to West Frisian swyn, Low German Swien, Dutch zwijn, German Schwein, Danish and Swedish svin, and more distantly to Polish świnia, Russian свинья́ (svinʹjá), Latin sūinus, Latin sūs, Ancient Greek ὗς (hûs), Persian خوک (xuk).

Mới
sow

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