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Sch ( swam). Akin also to swamms, ‘sponge,’ swumfsl,, ‘pond.’ The  root swëm, sū̆m, appears also in ;  also  svamla,  swamen, ‘to swim.’ In the non- languages the root swem, sū̆mm, ‘to swim,’ has not yet been found. , see. ,, ‘to be dizzy or giddy,’ from the  swindeln,  swintilôn, allied to  swindel, ‘giddiness, vertigo,’  to  swintilôd and swintilunga. Further akin to, ‘to dwindle away,’ hence also ‘to faint, become unconscious.’ ,, ‘to vanish, dwindle away, decay, perish,’ from swinden,  swintan, ‘to vanish, pass away, grow lean, become unconscious, faint’; corresponding to  swindan (wanting in ), ‘to vanish’; probably allied to a root swī̆ (like  standan to the root stā̆?). The root swī̆ appears in swinan,  swînen, ‘to decrease, disappear, grow lean, become unconscious,’  svína, ‘to subside,’ svía, ‘to abate,’  svíme,  svîma,  zwijm, ‘giddiness, vertigo.’ In the non- languages the root swī̆, ‘to decrease,’ has not yet been authenticated; the comparison with  σί-νομας, ‘I plunder, damage,’ is dubious. —  ,, ‘consumption,’ swintsuht, swînsuht (allied to swînen), also swindelunge.  ,, ‘to swing, brandish, wave,’ from swingen, swinken,  swingan (swinchan?), ‘to swing, throw, hurl, strike, scourge, vault, fly, soar’; corresponding to  swingan, ‘to vault,’  swingan, ‘to scourge, fly, flutter,’  to swing; from  *swiggwan was formed swaggwjan, ‘to swing about.’ Under  and , an Aryan root swenk, sweng, was adduced;  swincan,  to swink, is a variant of  swingen,  to swing;   zwenken, ‘to swing.’  ,, ‘stake’; see.  ,, ‘to whiz, wir, chirp,’ only, allied, like , to a root swer, ‘to rustle, drink (like beasts).’ ,, ‘to sweat, perspire,’ from the  switzen,  swizzen;  *switjan is wanting. The root swī̆t, Aryan swī̆d, is  Aryan, as was observed under  (a common Aryan root for ‘to freeze’ is wanting; , , , and  );   svidyâ-mi, from the root svid, ‘to perspire,’  ίδίω, ‘I perspire,’ ἱδρώς, ‘perspiration,’ for σϝϊδ-, and further  sûdare, ‘to perspire’ (for *swoidare),  swidrs, ‘perspiration.’  ,, ‘to swear,’ from the  swęrn, swęrjen,  swęren; swęrien; a specifically  word (like );   swaran,  sverja,  swęrian,  to swear,  zweren,  swęrian, ‘to swear.’ The  root swar contained in these words had, however, a wider sense  than the one given, for traces in particular  lead us to infer that ‘to answer’ was the meaning of the root;   svǫr,  , ‘answer,’ svara, , ‘to answer,’ in the legal sense also ‘to give security,’ andsvar, , ‘legal decision,’  andswaru, , ‘answer,’  to answer (see ),  andswor, ‘vindication.’ The  idea of the  root swar is therefore, perhaps, ‘to be responsible’; it has been compared to  respondeo from spondeo.   , ‘sultry,’ only, from  swûl;   zwoel, ‘sultry,’  swôl ( *swôls, is wanting); allied, like, to  swilzzôn, ‘to burn slowly,’  for-swœ̂lan, ‘to burn,’  svœ́la, ‘thick, choking smoke.’ The root swē̆l, swō̆l, appears also in  svìlti, ‘to smoulder,’ svilus, ‘glimmering,’ svilmis, ‘burnt smell,’ and in  swelt, ‘to singe.’  , ‘sultriness,’ with a  ending like  and.   ,, ‘swelling, bombast,’ from swulst. geswulst, giswulst,, ‘swelling’; allied to.   ,, ‘swing, vibration, soaring, flight,’ from the late  swunc (g), ; allied to.   ,, ‘swearing, oath, curse,’ only, in  found only in the compound meinswuor, ‘perjury,’ in  only in eidswuor, ‘oath’; allied to.   ,, ‘savin (species of juniper),’ from the  sęvenboum,  sęvina, sęvinboum, formed from  sabîna (arbor Sabina,  ‘Sabine tree’); corresponding to  safine,  savin. <section end="Sebenbaum" /> <section begin="Sech" /> ,, ‘coulter,’ from sëch,  sëh (hh), , ‘mattock, ploughshare’ ( *sika- is wanting); allied, like  and , to a  root seh, seg, sek, from Aryan sek, seg. <section end="Sech" />