sweb
/swɛb/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
Etymology
From Middle English swebben (“to sleep, swoon”), from Old English swebban (“to put to sleep, lull, kill”), from From Proto-West Germanic *swabbjan, from Proto-Germanic *swabjaną, *swēbijaną (“to lull, put to sleep”), from Proto-Indo-European *swep-, *sup- (“to sleep”). Cognate with Icelandic svefja (“to put to sleep, lull, soothe”), Latin sōpiō (“put to sleep, lull”, verb). Related to sweven.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *swep-, swebben, swebban, *swabbjan, *swabjaną
Usage
- British usage
- Intransitive verb
Inflected Forms
swebs (present, singular)
swebbing (participle, present)
swebbed (participle, past)
swebbed (past)
swab (alternative)
swebs (plural)