Meaning

2 senses
  1. (archaic, transitive)To have sex with (someone).

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  2. (archaic, dialectal, transitive)To cut a crop in a sweeping or rambling manner, hence to reap; cut for harvest.

Translations

1 languages
Русский
to copulate with:

Origin

From Middle English swiven, from Old English swīfan (“to move, sweep, wend, revolve”), fro

From Middle English swiven, from Old English swīfan (“to move, sweep, wend, revolve”), from Proto-Germanic *swībaną (“to wipe, sweep”). Cognate with Old Frisian swīva, swīfa (“to waver”), Old Norse svīfa (“to drift, ramble, rove”), Norwegian Nynorsk sviva (“to rotate, wander”). Related to Old English swift (“swift”), Middle English swyvel (“swivel”).

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Forms

swives, swiving, swove, swiven
Base formswive · to swive
3rd person singularswives
Present participleswiving
Past simpleswove
Past participleswiven

irregular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyswive
he, she, itswives

Past simpleLesson

all personsswove

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave swiven
he, she, ithas swiven

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill swive

Synonyms

104 synonyms

Word family

2 related words

See also

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