swippen
Appearance
Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old English swipian, from Proto-West Germanic *swippjan; compare swepen and swopen.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]swippen (third-person singular simple present swippeth, present participle swippynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative swipte, past participle swipt)
Usage notes
[edit]- Before Late Middle English, this verb is only found in the past tense.
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of swippen (weak in -te)
1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “swippen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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