swencan

== Old English == === Etymology === From Proto-West Germanic *swankijan, from Proto-Germanic *swankijaną (“to cause to swing or sway, sling”), causative of Proto-Germanic *swinkaną (“to swing, bend”). Cognate with Old High German swenken (“to beat, whip, paddle”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈswen.t͡ʃɑn/ === Verb === swenċan to cause to labor; to cause trouble (to somebody) to harass, vex, afflict, distress to chasten ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== āswenċan ġeswenċan ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: swenchen === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “SWENCAN”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.