swints

== Old Prussian == === Etymology === Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *śwentás, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwen-. Cognate with Lithuanian šveñtas, Latvian svēts and Proto-Slavic *svę̑tъ. === Adjective === swints holy, sacred === References === Mažiulis, Vytautas (1988–1997), “swints”, in Prūsų kalbos etimologijos žodynas [Etymological Dictionary of Old Prussian]‎[1] (in Lithuanian), Vilnius G. H. F. Nesselmann (1873), “swints”, in Thesaurus linguae prussicae. Der preussische Vocabelvorrath [...] (in German), Berlin: Ferd. Dümmlers Verlagsbuchhandlung; Harrwitz & Gossmann, page 183