asweve
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English *asweven (found only in asweved), from Old English āswefan (“to put to sleep”), equivalent to a- + sweve, a word descended from Proto-West Germanic *swefan, from Proto-Germanic *swefaną (“to sleep”).
Related to sweven and sweb. Cognate with Danish sove (“to sleep”), Icelandic sofa (“to sleep”), Norwegian sove (“to sleep”), Swedish sova (“to sleep”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]asweve (third-person singular simple present asweves, present participle asweving, simple past and past participle asweved)
- (obsolete, poetic) To put to sleep.
- The swarth night asweveth the wearied men.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To stupefy.
- She stood completely asweved in the doorway.
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