swarth

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /swɔː(ɹ)ð/, /swɔː(ɹ)θ/ Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ð, -ɔː(ɹ)θ === Etymology 1 === ==== Noun ==== swarth (countable and uncountable, plural swarthes or swarths) Alternative form of sward. === Etymology 2 === See swart. ==== Adjective ==== swarth (comparative swarther, superlative swarthest) (archaic) swarthy ===== Derived terms ===== === Etymology 3 === ==== Noun ==== swarth An apparition of a person about to die; a wraith. === Anagrams === Warths, warths, wraths == Middle English == === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from Old Norse svǫrðr, from Proto-Germanic *swarduz; a doublet of swerd (“sward”). ==== Alternative forms ==== suarth, swarthe swarffe (influenced by turf?) ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /swarθ/ ==== Noun ==== swarth (especially Northern) Skin; the body's outer layer. A patch or skin with calluses. (rare) A leather strap or belt. Turf, sward (earth which grass has grown into the upper layer of) ===== Descendants ===== English: swarth → Middle Scots: swarf, swarffe ===== References ===== “sward, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 23 June 2018. Björkman, Erik (1900), “Chapter I. Phonetic criteria of Scandinavian loan-words in English”, in Scandinavian loan-words in Middle English (Studien zur Englischen Philologie; 7)‎[1], Part I, Halle A.S.: Max Niemeyer, page 166. === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== swarth alternative form of swathe (“swath”)