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/ === Adjective === sweotol (superlative sweotolost) clear, intelligible; evident, distinct ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== sweotole sweotolian sweotollīċ, sweotollīċe unsweotol ==== Related terms ==== witan *witol ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: swutel, sutel === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “sweotol”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.