swerd

swerd (plural swerds)

1. Obsolete form of sword.

Inherited from Old English sweord, from Proto-West Germanic *swerd, from Proto-Germanic *swerdą.

The forms /swoːrd/, /swɔrd/ originally mainly occur in Northwest Midland Middle English and adjacent dialects (although it is the usual form in the Auchinleck Manuscript), but spread further in Late Middle English.

• sweord, swert
• swærd, sweort, swuerd (chiefly Early Middle English)
• sweerd, sweerde, swerid, swerde, swierd, swyrd, swyrde (Late Middle English)
• sqwerd, sward (East Anglia); zuord (Kent); sword (Northern, Southern, West Midland)
• suerd, suerde, suord, suorde, surd (especially Northern); squorde, squrd, sorde, sworde (chiefly Northwest Midland)

• IPA^(key): /sweːrd/, /swɛːrd/, /swɛrd/
• IPA^(key): /swoːrd/, /swɔrd/ (especially Northwest Midland or West Riding, from Mercian Old English sword)
• IPA^(key): /s(w)urd/ (Southern, from West Saxon Old English swurd)

swerd (plural swerdes)

1. A sword (long-bladed cutting or stabbing weapon):
   • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎^[1], published c. 1410, Matheu 10:34, folio 4, verso, 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 the Earth. I didn't come to bring peace, but a sword.

   1. A ceremonial or ritual sword.
   2. (after to) Execution with a sword.
2. (figuratively) Something injurious or destructive:
   1. Military might or power.
   2. A piercing emotion or sensation.

• English: sword (obsolete swerd, sweard)
  • → Japanese: ソード (sōdo)
  • → Māori: hoari
• Middle Scots: sourd, sword, suird
  • Scots: swourd, swerd, swaird
  • Shetland: swird

• “sword, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 16 March 2018.
• “sword, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

swerd

1. alternative form of sward

From Proto-West Germanic *swerd, from Proto-Germanic *swerdą.

• IPA^(key): /swɛrd/

swerd n

1. a sword

• Middle Low German: swert
  • German Low German: Sweerd, Schweerd, Schwert
  • Plautdietsch: Schwieet

• Köbler, Gerhard (2014), Altsächsisches Wörterbuch‎^[2] (in German), 5th edition