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Sch plays a more important rôle in marriage than the father-in-law.   , ,‘swallow,’ from the  swalwe,  swalawa, ; a common  term; corresponding to the   zwaluw,  swealwe,  swallow,  svala ( svǫlu),, ‘swallow.’ No certain explanation can be given of the  form swalwôn, ; perhaps it represents swalgwôn-, pre- swalkuân, to which  ἀλκύων is also traced.   ,, ‘gullet, opening in a furnace,’ from swalch, , ‘gullet,’ allied to.   ,, ‘swell, billow, flood,’ from swal(ll), , ‘swollen mass’; allied to.   ,, ‘sponge, fungus,’ from the  swam (mm), swamp (b), ,  swam (mm), swamb, ;   swamms, ‘sponge,’  svǫppr, ‘‘sponge.’ Within these groups, which are very possibly connected together, we must distinguish three words, probably of different origin, of which the  stems were swamma-, *swamba-, and *swampu-. In the first two forms lave been united; to the second form  σομφός (for σξο-), ‘spongy, loose, porous,’ is  allied; the first is formed from.   ,, ‘swan,’ from the  swane, swan, ,  swan,  (swana, ); corresponding to  zwaan,  swǫn,  swan,  svanr, , ‘swan’;  *swans is by chance not recorded. Probably allied to the root svan, ‘to rustle, resound’ (, allied to  canere),  sonare (for *svonare);  only of the singing swan?.  ,, ‘to presage, forebode,’ only,  ‘to have a presentiment,’ like the swan that sings before its death.  ,, only in the phrase , ‘to be in vogue,’ from swanc (g or k), , ‘swinging motion, swinging, stroke, cut’; allied to.  ,, ‘pregnant, teeming,’ from the  swanger,  swangar;   zwanger, ‘pregnant,’ but  swǫngor, ‘awkward, idle’; the latter meaning makes the derivation from  improbable. has also the curious form swǫncor; see.  , . ‘prank, drollery, farce,’ from late swanc (g or k),, ‘prank, trick, an anecdote about it,’ iden - tical with  swanc, ‘swing, stroke, cut’ (see ),  swanch, , allied to swingan (just as  chlanch to chlingan; see ). <section end="Schwank" /> ,, ‘staggering, insteady,’ from swanc (k), , ‘pliant, thin, slender’; so too the   kel,  swgneor,  svang-r; allied to the root swing, in schwingen; hence schwant is  ‘easily swung, pliant.’ With the  cognates  sguancio, ‘wryness,’ has been connected. . <section begin="Schwanz" /> , mn., ‘tail, trail, train,’ from the  swanz,  (for  *swanz a form zagal,  zagel,  to  tail, is used). Through the medium of the intensive forms swangezen, swankzen, swanz is connected with :  swansen, ‘to shake to and fro,’  swanselen, ‘to reel.’ <section end="Schwanz" /> <section begin="Schwäre" /> ,, ‘ulcer, boil, sore,’ from swër,  swëro, , ‘physical pain, disease, swelling, ulcer’; allied to  swërn,  swëran, ‘to hurt, pain, fester, ulcerate.’ The root swer  perhaps ‘to press, torment’;  the  root svṛ, ‘to torment, injure.’ See  and. <section end="Schwäre" /> <section begin="Schwarm" /> ,, ‘swarm, cluster, throng,’ from swarm,  swaram, , ‘swarm (of bees)’; allied to the  root svar, ‘to rustle, resound.’   swearm, ‘swarm (of bees),’  swarm,  svarmr. See. <section end="Schwarm" /> <section begin="Schwarte" /> , t., ‘thick, hard skin; rind, bark, from swarte, swart,, ‘hairy scalp, hairy or feathered skin’ ( *swarta, , is by chance not recorded). A common word;   zwoord, ‘bacon rind,’  swarde, ‘scalp,’  sweard,  sward, ‘skin,’  svǫrðr, ’scalp, skin, whale-hide’;  *swardus,, ‘scalp.’ Origin obscure. Note the evolution in meaning of sward,  jarðan-svǫrðr, gras-svǫrðr,  jord-, grönswœrd. <section end="Schwarte" /> ,, ‘black, swarthy, gloomy,’ from and  swarz, ‘dark-coloured, black’; a common  term, most of the words denoting colour, except the recent loan-words, being part of the   vocabulary ( , , , &c.);  swarts,  svartr,  sweart,  swart,  zwart,  swart. sorta, ‘black colour,’ sorte, ‘black cloud,’ and Surtr are in a different stage of gradation. The common shwarta-