sweotol
Old English
Alternative forms
- swiotul, sutel, sutol, sutul, sweotel, sweotul, swital, switel, switol, swutel, swutol, swutul, swytel, swytol
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *switul, from Proto-Germanic *switulaz (“clear; evident”), possibly from an early merging of Proto-Germanic *sw- (“self”) from Proto-Indo-European *swō + witan (“to know”), from Proto-Germanic *witaną, with the suffix + -ol (“prone to doing”) from Proto-Germanic *-ulaz (adjective suffix), with the general meaning "self-knowable", thus "evident", however possible derivatives such as *witulaz, *witol (evident) and *switaną, *switan (to know oneself) do not exist outside of this adjective.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈswe͜o.tol/
Declension
Declension of sweotol — Strong
Declension of sweotol — Weak
Derived terms
- sweotole
- sweotolian
- sweotollīċ, sweotollīċe
- unsweotol
Related terms
- witan
- *witol
Descendants
- Middle English: swutel, sutel
References
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “sweotol”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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