sword
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]- swerd (obsolete)
Etymology
[edit]From Middle English sword, swerd, from Old English sweord (“sword”), from Proto-West Germanic *swerd, from Proto-Germanic *swerdą (“sword”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂w- (“sharp”). Cognate with Scots swuird, swerd, sword (“sword”), North Frisian swird (“sword”), West Frisian swurd (“sword”), Dutch zwaard (“sword”), Low German Sweerd, Schwert (“sword”), German Schwert (“sword”), Danish sværd, Norwegian sverd, Swedish svärd (“sword”), Icelandic sverð (“sword”), Old East Slavic свьрдьлъ (svĭrdĭlŭ, “drill”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA(key): [sɔːd]
- (Standard Southern British, MLE) IPA(key): [soːd]
- (Ireland) IPA(key): [soːɹd]
- (General American, Scotland) IPA(key): [sɔɹd]
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /so(ː)ɹd/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /soəd/
- (obsolete) IPA(key): /swɔːrd/
- Homophones: soared, (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger) sawed
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
Noun
[edit]sword (plural swords)
- (weaponry) A long bladed weapon with a grip and typically a pommel and crossguard (together forming a hilt), which is designed to cut, stab, slash and/or hack.
- c. 1515–1516, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c., published 1568:
- Malicious tunges, though they have no bones,
Are ſharper then ſwordes, ſturdier then ſtones.
- c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], line 59:
- (card games) A suit in certain playing card decks, particularly those used in Spain and Italy, or those used for divination.
- (card games) A card of this suit.
- (weaving) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.
Coordinate terms
[edit]- (weaponry): bayonet, claymore, cutlass, dagger, epee, épée, falchion, foil, katana, knife, machete, rapier, sabre, saber, scimitar, vorpal, yataghan, yatagan
Derived terms
[edit]- Amazon sword
- arming sword
- at half-sword
- backsword
- balisword
- bastard sword
- bearing sword
- broadsword
- broad sword
- cloak-and-sworder
- coin-sword
- court sword
- double-edged sword
- dual-edged sword
- fall on one's sword
- flaming sword
- flesh one's maiden sword
- greatsword
- hunting sword
- long sword
- longsword
- magic sword
- mortuary sword
- Newton's flaming laser sword
- Newton's laser sword
- ninja sword
- ozelot sword
- pork sword
- prop sword
- put to the sword
- rapper sword
- samurai sword
- scutching sword
- sell-sword
- sellsword
- sheathe the sword
- short sword
- shortsword
- silversword
- smallsword
- spellsword
- sward
- swoe
- sword and sandal
- sword-and-sandal
- sword-and-sorcery
- sword and sorcery
- sword arm
- sword bayonet
- swordbearer
- sword-bearer
- sword-bearing
- swordbearing
- swordbelt
- swordbill
- swordboat
- sword-breaker
- swordbrother
- sword cane
- swordcraft
- sword dance
- sword dollar
- sword drill
- sworder
- swordery
- sword fern
- swordfight
- swordfighter
- sword fighting
- swordfish
- sword-flag
- sword grass
- swordgrass
- sword hand
- sword knot
- swordlength
- swordless
- swordlet
- swordlike
- sword lily
- swordmage
- swordmaker
- swordmaking
- swordman
- swordmaster
- sword mat
- swordmistress
- sword of Damocles
- sword of state
- swordography
- swordplay
- swordpoint
- swordproof
- swordslength
- swordsman
- swordsmanship
- swordsmaster
- swordsmistress
- swordsmith
- swordsmithing
- swordsperson
- swordster
- swordstick
- swordstress
- sword-swallower
- sword swallower
- sword swallowing
- swordswoman
- swordtail
- sword verse
- swordwork
- the pen is mightier than the sword
- two-edged sword
- two-hand sword
- two swords
Descendants
[edit]- → Japanese: ソード
Translations
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Verb
[edit]sword (third-person singular simple present swords, present participle swording, simple past and past participle sworded)
- To stab or cut with a sword
Anagrams
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old English sword, a Mercian form of sweord (which some forms are directly from), from Proto-West Germanic *swerd, from Proto-Germanic *swerdą.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sword (plural swordes or (early) sweorden)
- sword, sabre
- c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)[1], published c. 1410, Matheu 10:34, page 4v, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:
- Nile ȝe deme þat I cam to ſende pees in to erþe / I cam not to ſende pees .· but swerd
- Don't feel that I came to bring peace to Earth. I didn't come to bring peace, but a sword.
- (figuratively) Military might or power.
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “sword, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-16.
Old English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sword n (nominative plural sword) (Mercian)
- Alternative form of sweord
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms inherited from Old English
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- English 1-syllable words
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with homophones
- Rhymes:English/ɔː(ɹ)d
- Rhymes:English/ɔː(ɹ)d/1 syllable
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Weapons
- English terms with quotations
- en:Card games
- en:Weaving
- English verbs
- en:Swords
- Middle English terms inherited from Old English
- Middle English terms derived from Old English
- Middle English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- Middle English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Middle English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Middle English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English nouns
- Middle English terms with quotations
- enm:Weapons
- Old English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old English lemmas
- Old English nouns
- Old English neuter nouns
- Mercian Old English