sweer

• swear
• sweir (Scotland)

From Middle English swer, sware, from Old English swǣr, swār (“heavy, of great weight, oppressive, grievous, painful, unpleasant, great, sad, feeling or expressing grief, grave, slow, dull, sluggish, slothful, indolent, inactive from weakness, enfeebled, weak”), from Proto-Germanic *swēraz, *swērijaz (“heavy”), from Proto-Indo-European *swēr- (“heavy”). Cognate with West Frisian swier (“heavy, burdensome, onerous, pregnant”), Dutch zwaar (“heavy, hard, difficult”), German schwer (“difficult, hard, heavy”), Swedish svår (“hard, severe, difficult, heavy”), Latin sērius (“earnest, serious”), Lithuanian svarus (“heavy, important”), Albanian var (“to hang, burden, annoy”), Ancient Greek ἕρμα (hérma, “prop, foundation, reef, hill”).

• IPA^(key): /swɪə/

sweer (comparative more sweer, superlative most sweer)

1. (Britain dialectal) Heavy.
2. (Britain dialectal) Dull; indolent; lazy.
3. (Britain dialectal) Reluctant; unwilling; disinclined.

• Ewers, Weser, ewers, re-sew, resew, sewer, weres

From Dutch zweren, from Middle Dutch sweren, from Old Dutch *swerien, sweren, from Proto-Germanic *swarjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *swer-.

sweer (present sweer, present participle swerende, past participle gesweer)

1. to swear

From Old Dutch *sweur, *swēr, from Proto-Germanic *swehuraz, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱuros.

swêer m

1. male in-law
2. father-in-law

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• “sweer”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “sweer (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

• sweir

From Middle English swere, from Old English swǣr, swār, from Proto-Germanic *swēraz (“heavy”). Cognate with West Frisian swier, Dutch zwaar, German schwer, Swedish svår.

• IPA^(key): /swir/

sweer (comparative mair sweer, superlative maist sweer)

1. reluctant, unwilling
2. sad, depressed
3. lazy
4. depressing

• sweirt

• 2000, The flouer's bonniness minded him o cantier times but the rose itsel wis mingin wi sweir connotations. But n Ben A-Go-Go p.6