Sweb Definition
noun
(UK dialectal, Northern England) A swoon.
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Origin of Sweb
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From Middle English swebben (“to sleep, swoon”), from Old English swebban (“to put to sleep, lull, kill”), from Proto-Germanic *swabjaną, *swēbijaną (“to lull, put to sleep”), from Proto-Indo-European *swep-, *sup- (“to sleep”). Cognate with Icelandic svefja (“to sleep”), Latin sōpiō (“put to sleep, lull”, verb). Related to sweven.
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