swete

== Haitian Creole == === Etymology === From French souhaiter (“wish”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /swete/ === Verb === swete to wish == Middle English == === Etymology 1 === From Old English swēte, swōt. ==== Alternative forms ==== suete, sweete, swote, swoote, swoot, sote, soot ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ˈsweːt(ə)/, /ˈswoːt(ə)/, /ˈsoːt(ə)/ ==== Adjective ==== swete sweet, pleasant-tasting sweet in smell pleasant, likeable loved, dear, precious ===== Derived terms ===== hony-swete ===== Descendants ===== English: sweet Scots: sweet, sweit, swet Yola: sweet ===== References ===== “swẹ̄t(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 9 March 2018. ==== Noun ==== swete (plural swetes) sweetness in taste or smell pleasantness, euphoria, bliss ===== References ===== “swẹ̄te, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 9 March 2018. === Etymology 2 === From Old English swāt, from Proto-Germanic *swait-. The vocalism was sometimes influenced by swǣtan. ==== Alternative forms ==== swette, swhete, squete, swæt, swate, swote, swot ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ˈswɛːt/, /ˈswɔːt/ (Northern) IPA(key): /ˈswɑːt/ ==== Noun ==== swete (plural swetes) blood sweat, perspiration ===== Descendants ===== English: sweat; swot → Esperanto: ŝvito Scots: sweet, swate, swait, swete, sweit === Etymology 3 === ==== Noun ==== swete alternative form of suet == Old English == === Alternative forms === swœ̄te, swoete === Etymology === From Proto-West Germanic *swōtī, from Proto-Germanic *swōtuz, from Proto-Indo-European *sweh₂dus. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈsweː.te/ Rhymes: -eː.te === Adjective === swēte (comparative swētra, superlative swētest) sweet (of smell or taste) Exeter Book, riddle 40 pure, untainted (of a taste) harmonious agreeable, pleasant, sweet (of personality) ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== swētan swētlīċe swētnes swōte unswēte ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: swete, soote; swoote, sweete Scots: swet, sweit, sweet English: sweet === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “swéte”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.