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单词 swayve
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swayvev.

Forms: Also Middle English sweyue, 1800s swave.
Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse *sveifa.
Etymology: < Old Norse *sveifa (compare Norwegian dialect sveiva to swing, sveiv whirl, vortex), related to svífa to rove, drift (see swive v.).
dialect.
intransitive. To move to and fro; to flow.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > flow [verb (intransitive)] > away > in different directions
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1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. Prol. 10 As I lay and lened and loked in þe wateres, I slombred in a slepyng it sweyued [v.r. sweyed, A-text sownede, v.rr. swiȝede, swyed] so merye.
c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 253 Þenne he [sc. the whale] swengez & swayues to þe se boþem.
1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Swave, to pass backward and forward. Cumb.
1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) Swayve.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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